Question

Give two examples of water soluble vitamins.

Answer 1

Hint: We can classify vitamins depending upon the solvent that they can get dissolved in as fat soluble and water soluble vitamins.
We have heard a lot about exposing ourselves to sunlight to meet our need for vitamin D.

Complete answer:
We can understand the meaning of the term “Vitamin” that was initially used for these substances as they were thought to be vital and containing amine but we found out later that amino groups are not so common in vitamins but they are essential for us, so now, we use the term “vitamin” simply. Vitamins are vital and needed in small quantity but their excess can be harmful for us. So, we need to be very careful about our intake quantity.
Now this quantity is somewhat related to the solvent that vitamins are soluble in and taken with. Based on their solubility, we can have fat soluble vitamins or water soluble vitamins. Let’s look at water soluble vitamins in some detail.
As the name suggests, we can simply define water soluble vitamins as those vitamins that are soluble in water. We can take B group vitamins and vitamin C to be examples of water soluble vitamins. As we know that we need to drink sufficient amounts of water to remain healthy as it gets filtered and excreted as urine. We can also infer from this, water soluble vitamins will get excreted with water as well. So, we need to make sure that we are including these vitamins in our diet on a regular basis and in sufficient amounts.

Hence, the two examples can be taken as vitamin C and vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{1}}}$

Note:
We have many vitamins in B group vitamins such as vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{2}}}$, vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{6}}}$ or vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{{\rm{12}}}}$. We also know vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{1}}}$ as Thiamine, vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{2}}}$ as Riboflavin and vitamin ${{\rm{B}}_{\rm{6}}}$ as Pyridoxine.