Vitamins Production by Fermentation

Vitamins Production by Fermentation

	Vitamins Production by Fermentations - Microbial production is the only source of vitamin Bl2 whilst of an the other water-soluble vitamins now available commercially only riboflavin (vitamin B2) is manufactured to any significant extent, microbiologically.
There are reports that ascorbic acid is also produced by microbial fermentation but the details are not available. None of the fat soluble vitamins is produced industrially by microbiological methods but one compound, β-carotene which is converted by animals to vitamin A, can be prepared by microbial synthesis.