Definition of riboflavin
: a yellow crystalline compound C17H20N4O6 of the vitamin B complex that occurs both free (as in milk) and combined (as in liver) as a component of coenzymes (such as FMN) which are essential to normal metabolism
— called also vitamin B2
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The first known use of riboflavin was in 1935
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