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I'm really not sure where that citation is coming from. It's a Google web answer but the source has no citation. Wikipedia lists a textbook, rather than anything from NCBI, and I'm too lazy to dig further. A corn torilla or slice of bread in the US typically has 1-2 mg of niacin, and a daily recommendation of around 16mg.

3 oz (85 grams) of "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of the stuff[1], and average adults get about 30mg/day. Best I can tell this is about nicotinic acid specifically, and might be IV rather than ingestion, which is very much an apples and oranges situation.

    1: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Niacin-HealthProfessional/


Agree, I didn't dig - was the first result I found.

Fact is though, that here in Europe there is no need or value in adding this supplement, and generally the EU is wary of any adulterated foods without reason.


And for good reason.


> "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of [niacin]

That's off by a factor of 1000x -- it says 10.3 milligrams.


Apologies for the typo




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