NBA Most Valuable Player candidate Stephen Curry (center) shined during the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Here he celebrates a second-round win over Georgetown with his Davidson College teammates after a 25-point second-half performance.
(7) The Institute recommends against getting more than 1,000 micrograms per day of folic acid from supplements or fortified food; folate intake from food is not a concern. One main reason for the upper limit on folic acid is that getting too much folic acid can mask the signs of a vitamin B12 deficiency.
Folic acid is the synthetic form of the vitamin B9. In its natural form, B9 is called folate and is named after folium, the Latin word for leaf. This is because folate is found in green leafy vegetables such as spinach. Other dietary sources of folate are citrus fruit, dried beans and fortified cereals.