Folic acid is the name given to the synthetic form of the B vitamin know as folate. The RNI of folate
for women aged 19–50 is 200 μg. Folate (or folic acid) is needed to prevent neural tube defects
(NTDs) in babies. A baby’s central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) normally develops first as a flat sheet of cells (the neural plate) which rolls up