Vitamin C, Liquid

Description

This tasty liquid vitamin C provides 1000 mg per serving.
Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin. This means that it dissolves in water and is delivered to the body’s tissues and must be taken daily through food or supplements, because the body does not store it. Even before its discovery in 1932, nutrition experts recognized that something in citrus fruits could prevent scurvy, a disease that killed as many as two million sailors between 1500 and 1800.
Carpenter KJ. The history of scurvy and vitamin C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Institute of Medicine (US) Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Compounds.

Vitamin C plays a role in controlling infections and healing wounds, and is a powerful antioxidant that can neutralize harmful free radicals. It is needed to make collagen, a fibrous protein in connective tissue that is weaved throughout various systems in the body: nervous, immune, bone, cartilage, blood, and others. The vitamin helps make several hormones and chemical messengers used in the brain and nerves. [2] (Source: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/vitamin-c/)