Folic acid, also known as Vitamin B9 or Folacin, is the synthetic form of the B vitamin folate. It is water-soluble and essential to many bodily functions such as producing healthy red blood cells and preventing anaemia. Folic acid is essential for creating heme, the iron containing substance in hemoglobin, crucial for oxygen transport. Lack of adequate folic acid in the body can lead to heart disease, birth defects (in the case of pregnant women), certain allergies, cancer, premature senility, acne and megaloblastic anaemia (rare disorder in which the body does not absorb enough vitamin B12 from the digestive tract, resulting in an inadequate amount of red blood cells produced).
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