Vitamin C (also referred to as ascorbic acid) is a water soluble vitamin. It is probably the most well known of all the thirteen vitamins. The discovery of ascorbic acid happened as the result of extensive research into a cure for scurvy. In 1928 two independent researchers; Albert Szent-Györgyi and Charles G. King made the key breakthrough and managed to isolate this vitamin as the cure. The main role of vitamin C is to assist in the production of the connective tissue collagen which helps repair wounds.
Humans vary greatly in their vitamin C requirement. It's natural for one person to need 10 times as much vitamin C as another person; and a person's age and health status can dramatically change his or her need for vitamin C. The amount of vitamin C found in food varies as dramatically as our human requirement. In general, an unripe food is much lower in vitamin C than a ripe one, but provided that the food is ripe, the vitamin C content is higher when the food is younger at the time of harvest.
Humans vary greatly in their vitamin C requirement. It's natural for one person to need 10 times as much vitamin C as another person; and a person's age and health status can dramatically change his or her need for vitamin C. The amount of vitamin C found in food varies as dramatically as our human requirement. In general, an unripe food is much lower in vitamin C than a ripe one, but provided that the food is ripe, the vitamin C content is higher when the food is younger at the time of harvest.
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