Umetaro Suzuki isolated thiamine (which he referred to as Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910, but the paper he wrote on the topic was poorly translated and largely overlooked in the West. Two years later, Kazimierz Funk managed to extract the same substance and called it Vitamine.

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Umetaro Suzuki isolated thiamine (which he referred to as Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910, but the paper he wrote on the topic was poorly translated and largely overlooked in the West. Two years later, Kazimierz Funk managed to extract the same substance and called it Vitamine.
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Umetaro Suzuki isolated thiamine (which he referred to as Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910, but the paper he wrote on the topic was poorly translated and largely overlooked in the West. Two years later, Kazimierz Funk managed to extract the same substance and called it Vitamine.

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