Niacin deficiency in a maize-eating population is due to-: (A) High Tryptophan, (B) High lsoleucine, (C) High leucine, (D) High Phenylalanine
Answer is C. Ans. is 'c' i.e., High Leucine Excess of Leucine interferes in conversion of Tryptophan into Niacin, and aggravates the pallagrogenic action of inake.