The first Vitamin was actually a Japanese discovery

Today, and December 13th, annually is vitamin Day in Japan. A polish scientist is attributed with discovering a vitamin for the first time in 1911. He named it too - from 'vital amino'. However, the year previous a Japanese scientist, Umetaro Suzuki, had actually made the discovery first. It was written about in a German science journal, but due to poor translation he went unrecognised as making the discovery.

Regardless, the discovery of vitamins was a very important discovery. Especially as "beriberi disease" was rampant at the time. When Suzuki discovered a vitamin for the first time, which he called "oryzanin", he also discovered that vitamins could be used to treat "beriberi disease". However, as he wasn't in the right circles and his work was overlooked, it took some time for word to get around that vitamin B1 could be used to treat and prevent beriberi disease. 

Nowadays, there are many ways to intake vitamins such as food, drink, fortified food or supplements for example. With the result, beriberi disease is rare nowadays. Do you get enough vitamins everyday?