The days are getting darker and colder, and catching a cold is inevitable. Taking vitamins to boost your immune system is common knowledge these days, but taking Vitamine C supplements is a whole other story!
We as humans cannot synthesize vitamin C itself and are for that reason completely dependent on a certain diet to obtain vitamin C. Vitamin C is water-soluble and appears throughout the body with the highest concentration in the adrenal and pituitary glands. However, the largest amount of vitamin C is in the liver and skeletal muscle due to its large size in relation to the whole body.
What happens when you really do not eat/take any Vitamine C?
In the year 1500, when exploring the world via ship was a big thing, people spend days on end on a ship without any fruits or vegetables. This resulted in an extreme deficiency in Vitamine C which caused a lot of the sailors to get very ill and most of them even die. This disease is also known as Scurvy.
Symptoms are feeling weak, tired, changes to hair, sore arms and legs, gum disease and easy bleeding.
The 5 main sources of Vitamine C
- Brussels sprouts
- A red regular pepper
- An Orange
- Strawberries
- Kiwis
If we take a look at the main sources of vitamin C a common mistake is often made.
This is the fact that people compare 1 orange to 1 vitamin C tablet of 1000 mg.
1 orange only holds up to roughly about 150 grams of vitamin C, which would mean that you would have to eat 10 oranges to get the same amount of vitamin C.
As for vegetables, Vitamine C is water soluble which means that if you cook the vegetables that contain vitamin C too long, vitamin C will get lost in the cooking process.
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