Unknowns in Vitamin C

Vitamin C and COVID-19

  Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...

Vitamin C in Vegetables

The oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid may be cat,alyzed by copper (1, 8)) by ot,her metals (11) and metallic compounds, by norit charcoal (5)) and by an enzyme or enzyme complex (12, 13). The dehydroascorbic acid has an antiscorbutic activity similar to that of ascorbic acid (6) and may be reduced to the latter by the use of H,S and other reductants (14) The existence of ascorb...

Vitamin C.

Determination of vitamin C in iranian citrus fruits

Vitamin C Nutrition in Cattle

Domestic animals, including ruminants, can synthesize vitamin C (VC) in their liver; as such, the dietary requirement for VC has not been confirmed in these animals. The adequacy of VC has been evaluated by quantifying VC levels in plasma, but the reported values in bovine plasma have been widely variable. Plasma VC concentration is decreased by heat stress, hepatic lesions, fattening, and infe...