eli5: If vitamins are things considered essential to human life, why is salt not considered a vitamin?

Question

Salt isn’t regularly considered a spice, nor is it discussed as a vitamin like A, B, etc. But isn’t it necessary in small amounts for humans?

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Answer 1

If you want to make up your own definition of vitamins then yes salt is a vitamin . Under the traditional definition, a vitamin is an organic chemical than is necessary for life. It’s not literally anything you need to live otherwise oxygen is a vitamin