{"id":2198,"date":"2024-03-05T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:47:14","slug":"vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/vitamin-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Vitamin C<\/strong>, water-soluble, carbohydrate-like substance that is involved in certain metabolic processes of animals. Although most animals can&nbsp;synthesize&nbsp;vitamin&nbsp;C, it is necessary in the diet of some, including humans and other primates, in order to prevent&nbsp;scurvy, a disease characterized by soreness and stiffness of the joints and lower extremities, rigidity, swollen and bloody gums, and hemorrhages in the tissues of the body. First isolated in 1928, vitamin C was identified as the curative agent for scurvy in 1932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitamin C is essential for the synthesis of&nbsp;collagen, a protein important in the formation of&nbsp;connective tissue&nbsp;and in wound healing. It acts as an&nbsp;antioxidant, protecting against damage by reactive molecules called free radicals. The vitamin also helps in&nbsp;stimulating&nbsp;the&nbsp;immune system. It has been shown in animal trials that vitamin C has some anticarcinogenic activity.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/21\/13821-004-7DEA4076\/Vitamin-C-Ascorbic-Acid.jpg\" alt=\"Vitamin C or Ascorbic Acid.\">More From Britannicanutritional disease: Vitamin C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relatively large amounts of vitamin C are required\u2014for instance, an adult&nbsp;man&nbsp;is said to need about 70 mg (1 mg = 0.001 gram) per day.&nbsp;Citrus&nbsp;fruits and fresh vegetables are the best dietary sources of the vitamin. Because vitamin C is easily destroyed by reactions with&nbsp;oxygen, especially in neutral or alkaline solution or at elevated temperatures, it is difficult to preserve in foods. The vitamin is added to certain fruits to prevent browning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin C, water-soluble, carbohydrate-like substance that is involved in certain metabolic processes of animals. Although most animals can&nbsp;synthesize&nbsp;vitamin&nbsp;C, it is necessary in the diet of some, including humans and other primates, in order to prevent&nbsp;scurvy, a disease characterized by soreness and stiffness of the joints and lower extremities, rigidity, swollen and bloody gums, and hemorrhages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic-compounds"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}