{"id":33298,"date":"2020-07-29T06:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=33298"},"modified":"2021-08-29T06:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T06:20:03","slug":"folate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/folate\/","title":{"rendered":"Folate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optional on nutrition label unless added as a nutrient supplement. Folate, also called folic acid or folacin, is a water-soluble vitamin needed to form red blood cells and genetic materials.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Salt or ester of folic acid.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Folate deficiency may occur with alcoholism, taking birth control pills, malnutrition, and certain types of anemia. Deficiency is detected by measuring blood levels by bioassay.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optional on nutrition label unless added as a nutrient supplement. Folate, also called folic acid or folacin, is a water-soluble vitamin needed to form red blood cells and genetic materials. Salt or ester of folic acid. Folate deficiency may occur with alcoholism, taking birth control pills, malnutrition, and certain types of anemia. Deficiency is detected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Folate - Definition of Folate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Optional on nutrition label unless added as a nutrient supplement. 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