Micronutrients

Micronutrients are nutrients required by humans and other living things throughout life in small quantities to orchestrate a whole range of physiological functions, but which the organism itself cannot produce.^[1] For people, they include dietary trace minerals in amounts generally less than 100 milligrams/day^{[citation needed]} - as opposed to macrominerals which are required in larger quantities.

The microminerals or trace elements include at least iron, cobalt, chromium, copper^[2],iodine, manganese, selenium, zinc and molybdenum. Micronutrients also include vitamins, which are organic compoundsrequired as nutrients in tiny amounts by an organism.^[3]