Vitamin C (ASCORBIC ACID) Overview Information Vitamin C is a vitamin. Some animals can make their own vitamin C, but people must get this vitamin from food and other sources. Good sources of vitamin C are fresh fruits and vegetables, especially citrus fruits. Vitamin C can also be made in a laboratory. Most experts recommend getting vitamin C from a diet high in fruits and vegetables rather than taking supplements. Fresh-squeezed orange juice or fresh-frozen concentrate is a better
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Vitamin C Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Humans, unlike most animals, are unable to synthesize vitamin C, so it is an essential dietary component. In some settings, vitamin C serves as a cofactor helping a specific enzyme perform its job, but in others, it acts as an antioxidant participating in more general ways. Vitamin C loses electrons easily, a characteristic
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the percentage of Vitamin C in different fruit juices * Data collection Raw data: The Amount of Iodine used by Vitamin C in 10.0ml fruit solutions (ml) ± 0.01ml | Solution Group | Apple | Orange | Pitaya | Tomato | Pear | 0.05%Vitamin C solution | 0.1% Vitamin C solution | Group A | 0.25 | 2.66 | 0.42 | 0.82 | 0.36 | 3.16 | 6.13 | Group B | 1.34 | 2.96 | 0.41 | 1.02 | 0.27 | 3.01 | 6.24 | Table 1 Processed data: The average content of 0.05%vitamin C solution in both group
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Vitamin C Background Information Vitamins play an essential role in animal metabolic processes. They are groups of complex organic compounds that do not provide energy. However, without vitamins, animals may develop deficiency diseases or other abnormal conditions. Although most animals cannot synthesise vitamins, certain animals can. Apart from vitamin D, the human body cannot make its own vitamins. As humans, we must obtain the vitamins we require through the food that we consume. 2D Structure
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million visits to the doctor and is the most common illness reported. (Braun et al., 2000). Vitamin C was introduced in the 1930’s In relation to treating respiratory infections. Once isolated It became world wide treatment when Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling explained from his placebo-controlled trials that Vitamin C would prevent and cure the common cold in the 1970’s (Carr AB, 2010) Since then Vitamin C has been widely used as a therapeutic and preventative agent to combat the common cold. Over
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low-fat milk and milk products 2. Fruits and some vegetables are excellent sources of vitamin C, which is a water soluble vitamin. Fruits with the highest sources of vitamin C include cantaloupe, citrus fruits and juices, such as orange and grapefruit kiwi fruit mango and papaya among others, whereas vegetables that have vitamin C comprise broccoli, cauliflower, green and red bell peppers, and brussels sprout 2. Vitamin C – as an antioxidant – functions by helping to neutralize the action of free radicals
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Internal Assessment: Comparing Vitamin C of an Apple versus an Orange Cazmir Leenheer Biology 09-08-’11 Research Question: Is freshly squeezed apple (Malus domestica) juice or orange (Citrus sinensis) juice a richer and therefore healthier source of vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)? Aim: To measure the vitamin C content of 20 apples and 20 oranges and subsequently using a statistical Mann-Witney U test accordingly, concluding which fruit contains a richer source of vitamin C. Background Information:
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of the Effects of Different Dietary Vitamin C levels on the Body Composition, Growth Performance and Feed Utilization Efficiencies in Stinging Catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792) Md. Jobaer Alam 1, Md. Ghulam Mustafa 1, Md. Abdul Khaleque 2. 1 2 Department of Fisheries, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Institute of Food Science and Technology, BCSIR, Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda road, Dhaka-1205 Abstract: To evaluate the effects of Vitamin C of formulated feed on growth performance
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Ascorbinsyre indhold i C-vitamintabletter Formål Forsøgets formål er at bestemme ascorbinsyreindholdet i C-vitamintabletter ved en potentiometrisk syre-base titrering. Teori: I dette forsøg titreres en svagsyre med en stærk base. Ascorbinsyren er en organisk syre som sammen med sin korresponderende base (acorbation) har den c-vitamineffekt som et livsnødvendigt vitamin for mennesket. Uden c-vitamin ville vi få skørbug og andre sygdomme. Når man titrere er man interesseret i en helt
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Intravenous vitamin C administration reduces fatigue in office workers: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. The occurrence of fatigue in an adult is about 27% and one third of that try to find medical treatment. Research is showing that oral administration of vitamin C is less effective because of low bioavailability of vitamin C in plasma. The lack of randomized controlled experiments to evaluate the usefulness of intravenous vitamin C to reduce fatigue influenced investigators to conduct
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