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Folic acid, this essential vitamin for the proper development of your baby

Folic acid is an essential vitamin to ensure the development of the neural tube of the fetus which corresponds to the outline of the spinal cord, and therefore to the formation of its nervous system.

For pregnant women, making sure to meet their folic acid needs means significantly reducing the risk of neural tube closure anomalies (spina bifida), which corresponds to incomplete development of the spine.

It is a vitamin that we draw from our diet, mainly green vegetables, but even a healthy and varied diet is not enough to give pregnant women or women wishing to have a child an adequate intake of folic acid. We are therefore here to complement them