Citrus fruits such as lemons, sweet orange, mandarin or tangerine contain vitamin C which prevents the deficiency disease scurvy.
Citrus fruits and juices are excellent sources of vitamin C containing more than the minimum daily requirements of 60 mg of vitamin C in 240 ml of juice.
There is considerable variation in the vitamin C content of juices of different citrus fruits. Grape fruit, tangerine and lemon generally contain between 20 and 50 mg.100 mL juice.
Vitamin C is an important antioxidant, which increase the protective antioxidant layer, glutathione concentration around the cells. Vitamin C also critical for production of collagen. Greater acidity or sour taste is a clear indicator for greater amount of vitamin C existence in citrus fruits.
Freshly squeezed juice usually has the highest vitamin C content, followed by juice made from frozen concentrate.
Unopened canned and bottled juices are next best: stored at room temperature, they retain more than 75 percent of their vitamin C for a year or longer.
Vitamin C in citrus fruit
Vitamins are defined as a group of complex organic compounds present in minute amounts in natural foodstuff that are essential to normal metabolism and lack of which in the diet causes deficiency diseases. Vitamins are required in trace amounts (micrograms to milligrams per day) in the diet for health, growth and reproduction.
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