vitamin B1 vs vitamin B

vitamin B1 and vitamin B both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vitamin B1	Yes	No	No	No
vitamin B	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vitamin B is a hypernym of vitamin B1; that is, vitamin B is a word with a broader meaning than vitamin B1:

vitamin B1: a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth
vitamin B: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins

Other hypernyms of vitamin B1 include B-complex vitamin, B, B complex, B vitamin, vitamin B complex.

vitamin B1 (noun)	vitamin B (noun)
a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth	originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins