Vitamin B6

by Abbas Jahangir · January 13, 2021

Vitamin B6 is one of the vitamins that fall under vitamin B. This means that the vitamin is soluble in water. Vitamin B6 is also called pyridoxine and ensures good resistance and solid digestion. To maintain the level of vitamin B6 in the body, the following can be eaten: meat, fish, eggs and potatoes.

In fact, vitamin B6 is in almost all the food that is consumed daily. It is recommended that an adult human consume about 6 whole wheat buns of vitamin B6. However, this is only a recommended amount. You do not have to worry that you will eat too much, because it only becomes unsafe if someone eats about 10 kilos of potatoes in one day. However, if you eat so many potatoes or something like that (which is very unrealistic) it is dangerous. It can then happen that the central nervous system is affected. Memory can also be affected if there is too much vitamin B6 in the body.

If there is too little vitamin B6 in the body, it can cause depression, for example. However, this doesn’t all the time have to be the case. It also happens that a deficiency develops a skin problem or problems with the tongue.

Do not cook in too much water

Because vitamin B6 is soluble in water, it is useful not to cook the vegetables in too much water, for example. As a result, the vitamins disappear from the vegetables and you do not get any vitamin B6. This is of course not the intention and therefore it should certainly be taken into account.

Lack of Vitamin B6?

In the Netherlands it almost never happens that someone has a pyridoxine (b6) deficiency. This is because it is in almost every food sold in the supermarket. This is of course very good and healthy, as vitamin B6 is important for the body. Pregnant women should get a little more vitamin B6 than is recommended for normal women. This is because the pregnant woman is eating for two, as it were: for herself and for the baby. The baby gets his or her vitamin B6 from his or her mother and therefore the mother needs to get extra vitamin B6.

With what do I get B6?

There are many products that contain vitamin B6. The overview below shows foods that are a good source of B6: