Vitamin b5 derives its vegan and vegetarian status from calcium pantothenate.
| Vegan? Yes | Vegetarian? Yes |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available vitamin b5 is vegan and vegetarian.
Vitamin B5, also known as pantothenic acid, is an essential nutrient found in nearly every food. The dietary supplement form of this vitamin used in almost all foods is calcium pantothenate.
Sources
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/vitamin%20B5#section=Methods-of-Manufacturing
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/239#section=Use-and-Manufacturing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Alanine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Propiolactone
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/%28R%29-pantolactone
- https://www.dgchemtech.com/pantolactone-market-and-technology-analysis.html