... BETA-CAROTENE,VITAMIN E, and the B COMPLEX as the best cultivatedsources. In addition, various algae are used com-mercially as sources of gums (AGAR, carrageenan, and ALGINATE). Carrageenan ... anion, lactate; ace-toacetic acid (a ketone body) as acetoacetate; citricacid as citrate, and so on. Often the names of acids and their anions are interchanged in nutrition lit-erature. (See also ... BODIES,PYRUVIC ACID, acetic acid, FATTY ACIDS, SUCCINICACID, citric acid, even the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. GLUTAMIC ACID and ASPARTIC ACID (two com-mon AMINO ACIDS) are classified as acidic aminoacids,...