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Folic acid is a water soluble vitamin that is associated with the B vitamins. Originally all of the B vitamins were thought to be the same vitamin until it was discovered that they were actually a complex of vitamins that occurred in the same foods and in many cases worked together in the body . Folic acid is also referred to as folate, folacin or sometimes vitamin M. Folate is basically used to describe the derivatives of a compound called, pteroylglutamic acid. This is the most commonly sold type of folate in the supplement industry. In the industry, folic acid is a term used to pteroylglutamic acid and the term folate is used to imply the derivatives of pteroylglutamic acid. In fact the food we eat from the natural world contains mostly folates and not folic acid. View the rest of this article