“Vitamin B5?”Here!pantothenic acid
Hasn’t appeared in a scanned product yet.
As a supplement
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
Roll Call does not check drug interactions or assess personal safety.
A B-complex vitamin the body uses to build coenzyme A, a molecule central to turning food into usable energy.
Why it’s used
Taken to meet daily nutrient needs and, less commonly, explored for skin or cholesterol-related uses.
What the evidence is for
meeting basic nutritional requirements for coenzyme A synthesis.
What the evidence says
According to NIH ODS, pantothenic acid deficiency is rare because the vitamin is widespread in food, and an adequate intake level (not an RDA) has been set for adults. Evidence for benefits beyond covering ordinary nutritional need — such as for acne or lipid levels — is thin and mostly comes from small or older studies.
Context
Because dietary deficiency is uncommon, most research on pantothenic acid concerns basic nutrient adequacy rather than a treatment effect at higher intakes.
Rumors
Meeting basic nutritional requirements for coenzyme A synthesis.
Supports — establishedhealth and safety evidence
Measured as a biomarker.
- Pantothenic Acid - Health Professional Fact Sheet (Regulatory) · Funding not checked
How much is a reference amount
- 5 mg a dayfor adults 19 and over · Adequate Intake
No upper limit has been set — the data was not sufficient to set one, which is a gap in the research rather than a finding about safety.
An AI based on usual intakes in healthy populations, not an RDA. No UL.
Every applicable line is shown because we don’t know which one is yours, and a reference intake is a target for a population, not a threshold for harm.