Vitamin C Description

Vitamin C - Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is also known popularly as Ascorbic Acid. Vitamin C is valuable in many ways, including production of hemoglobin and red blood cells. Vitamin C helps keep teeth and gums in good shape and is useful in healing bone breaks and other wounds. It is a popular notion, but likely a myth, that Vitamin C can cure the common cold. Certainly a Vitamin C deficiency does a person no good at all. Vitamin C is a popular treatment medically for urinary tract infections, and is known as a specific for scruvy.

Vitamin C is abundantly available in broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, grapefruit, peppers, potatoes, strawberries, tangerines and tomatoes. The most frequent choice for natural ingestion of Vitamin C is through eating oranges. It is commonly believed that excess Vitamin C will be excreted through the urine.