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vitamin C: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (8410 words) |
 | Vitamin C is needed in the diet to prevent scurvy, however, from the time it became available in pure form in the 1930s, some practitioners experimented with vitamin C as a treatment for diseases other than scurvy. |
| Vitamin C is the main of the three ingredients in Linus Pauling's patented preventive cure for heart disease, the other two being the amino acid lysine and nicotinic acid (a form of Vitamin B3). |
| Vitamin C is the most widely taken nutritional supplement and is available in a variety of forms from tablets and drink mixes to pure ascorbic acid crystals in capsules or as plain powder. |
| The Cambridge World History of Food - Vitamin C (5223 words) |
| Vitamin C is a heat-labile, water-soluble, and readily oxidizable molecule, and its distribution among foodstuffs and the losses resulting from processing and food preparation have been well documented. |
| Studying the losses induced in the vitamin C content of various foodstuffs by simple culinary procedures must be one of the commonest and oft-repeated projects in basic college and university courses, and the amount of unpublished data resulting from these studies must be immense. |
| Vitamin C deficiency is today a rare occurrence, and the evidence for extra-antiscorbutic requirements in excess of the mean daily intake is slender. |
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