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.
Looking Closer
This collection contains a wide variety of resources and information about Food Function and Structure, which supports the resources in the other collections.
List of Looking Closer resource items
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Antioxidants – Article
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.
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Functional foods – Article
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.
