accessory food factor

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or accessory growth factor

a term originally used to describe any unknown substance — subsequently called vitamin — found in small amounts in some foods, such as milk, that was necessary for the normal growth of animals fed on diets of purified carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and salts.

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1st Century A.D. (chronology)