Illustrate the Applications of vitamin B₆

The heating processes employed in the industry for the sterilization of milk based formulations will greatly reduce their vitamin B₆ content. Possibly, as yet, unknown decomposition products of vitamin B₆ are formed/it is inactivated in these products during manufacture and storage, with the loss of vitamin activity.

 An interesting fact of practical importance is the observation that the vitamin B₆ hydrochloride added to milk or milk preparation is more resistant to thermal sterilization than the vitamin B6 naturally present in the milk. Loss of vitamin B₆ loss due to thermal sterilization of  milk based preparation may thus be compensated by external addition of vitamin B₆ hydrochloride.