18 Facts About Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin found in citrus and other fruits and vegetables, and sold as a dietary supplement.

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient involved in the repair of tissue, the formation of collagen, and the enzymatic production of certain neurotransmitters.

Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928, and, in 1933, was the first vitamin to be chemically produced.

Vitamin C is available as an inexpensive generic and over-the-counter medication.

Foods containing vitamin C include citrus fruits, kiwifruit, guava, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, potatoes, and strawberries.

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Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for certain animals including humans.

The term vitamin C encompasses several vitamers that have vitamin C activity in animals.

In humans, vitamin C deficiency leads to impaired collagen synthesis, contributing to the more severe symptoms of scurvy.

In plants, vitamin C is a substrate for ascorbate peroxidase.

Vitamin C has a definitive role in treating scurvy, which is a disease caused by vitaminC deficiency.

The European Food Safety Authority found a cause and effect relationship exists between the dietary intake of vitamin C and functioning of a normal immune system in adults and in children under three years of age.

Vitamin C helps to keep iron in the reduced ferrous state, which is more soluble and more easily absorbed.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, with dietary excesses not absorbed, and excesses in the blood rapidly excreted in the urine, so it exhibits remarkably low acute toxicity.

Stereoisomers of Vitamin C have a similar effect in food despite their lack of efficacy in humans.

In particular, the ability to synthesize vitamin C is presumed to have been lost and then later re-acquired in at least two cases.

One explanation for the repeated loss of the ability to synthesize vitamin C is that it was the result of genetic drift; assuming that the diet was rich in vitaminC, natural selection would not act to preserve it.

Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928 and synthesized in 1933, making it the first vitamin to be synthesized.

Vitamin C later developed the theory that humans possess a mutated form of the -gulonolactone oxidase coding gene.