Nutritional Markers for Evaluating Vitamin Intakes in YOung

Litt,]e information is avatlable to estimate watcr-soluble vitamin intakes t'rom urinary vitamins and tLieir metabolite contents as possib]e nutritional markcrs. Dctermination of the relationships between the oral dose and urinary excretion of water-soluble vitamins in human subjects contributes to linding va[id nutrition markers of watcr-soluble vitamin intakes. Six fcmale Japanese college students were given a standard Japanese dict jn the first weel<, the same diet with a synthesized water-soluble vitamin mixture as a diet with