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Are you getting enough folic acid and tocopherol in your diet?

To retard the development of rancidity, organic antioxidants, commonly tocopherol, propyl gallate, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), or butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), are used.

There was no association between stroke and blood levels of the other four antioxidants — alpha carotene, beta carotene, alpha tocopherol and retinol.

The upper limit for vitamin E, which a person could achieve only by taking supplements, is 1,500 I.U. if the product is "d-alpha tocopherol," or 1,100 I.U. if the product is "dl-alpha-tocopherol," a synthetic version of the vitamin.

For vitamin E, the recommended intake for men and women is 15 milligrams, or 22 International Units, or I.U., of alpha tocopherol.

Synthetic Vitamin E is labeled dl-alpha tocopherol; natural is labeled d-alpha tocopherol.

Vitamin E (α-tocopherol), a substituted chroman, is found in plant oils and the leaves of green vegetables, whereas coumarin, or 2H-1-benzopyran-2-one, used in perfumes and flavourings, and its derivative dicoumarin (dicumarol, or discoumarol), a blood anticoagulant, are products of living organisms.

The various forms of vitamin E are stored in tissues in different amounts; alpha-tocopherol is stored in higher concentrations than are the other forms.

The active tocopherols are named in order of their potency; i.e., alpha-tocopherol is the most active.

Some metabolites of alpha-tocopherol (such as alpha-tocopherolquinone and alphatocopheronolactone) have activity in some mammals (e.g., rats, rabbits); however, these metabolites do not support all the functions attributed to vitamin E. Vitamin K1 (20), or phylloquinone, is synthesized by plants; the members of the vitamin K2 (30), or menaquinone, series are of microbial origin.

In the particular case of vitamin E, supplements labeled d-α-tocopherol (or "natural") generally contain more vitamin E activity than those labeled dl-α-tocopherol.