– Why are there so many B vitamins but not multiple of other letters. What’s the difference between them all?

Question

I’m eating cereal right now and it says it’s a good source of 5 B vitamins. You always see Vit B6 or B12. What are all these vitamins and why is there only one A or C vitamin?

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Answer 1

When vitamins were discovered they thought that there was only one b vitamin. That turned out to be multiple different vitamins so they started to use numbers to distinguish them