Vitamin C – Article
Without the vitamin C available from eating fruit and vegetables, we could not survive. Vitamin C was the first vitamin to be discovered, the first to be structurally determined and the first to be made artificially.
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Without the vitamin C available from eating fruit and vegetables, we could not survive. Vitamin C was the first vitamin to be discovered, the first to be structurally determined and the first to be made artificially.
Dietary antioxidants are chemicals found in foods that reduce damage in the body caused by free radicals. The best known ones are vitamins A, C and E as well as phytochemicals.
Functional foods are similar to conventional foods in a normal diet. The difference is that they have a demonstrated positive benefit to overall health and the potential to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.