What is thiamine (B1)?
Thiamine is a vitamin your body needs for growth, development, and cellular function, as well as converting food into energy.
Like the other B vitamins, thiamine is water-soluble. That means that it dissolves in water and isn’t stored in your body, so you need to consume it on a regular basis. In fact, your body can only store around 20 days’ worth of thiamine at any given time.
Fortunately, thiamine is naturally found in a variety of foods and added to others via fortification. It’s also commonly added to multivitamins or taken as an individual supplement or as part of a vitamin B complex.
Some of the best places to find thiamine in your diet include foods like:
enriched white rice or egg noodles
fortified breakfast cereal
pork
trout
black beans
sunflower seeds
acorn squash
yogurt
many commercial bread varieties
corn
Thiamine is a vitamin your body needs for growth, development, and cellular function, as well as converting food into energy.
Like the other B vitamins, thiamine is water-soluble. That means that it dissolves in water and isn’t stored in your body, so you need to consume it on a regular basis. In fact, your body can only store around 20 days’ worth of thiamine at any given time.
Fortunately, thiamine is naturally found in a variety of foods and added to others via fortification. It’s also commonly added to multivitamins or taken as an individual supplement or as part of a vitamin B complex.
Some of the best places to find thiamine in your diet include foods like:
enriched white rice or egg noodles
fortified breakfast cereal
pork
trout
black beans
sunflower seeds
acorn squash
yogurt
many commercial bread varieties
corn