Vitamin C a water soluble vitamin which is also called as ascorbic acid.
Most mammals, including humans do not have the ability to make their own vitamin C. Therefore, vitamin C must be provided through diet.
The body needs vitamin C to keep it in good working condition.
Vitamin C helps to hold body cells together, aids in wound healing, assists in bone and tooth formation and strengthens the blood vessel walls.
Vital for the function of the immune system, improves absorption and utilization of iron.
Helps to prevent nutritional ailments such as scurvy, and so vitamin C is said to have anti scorbutic properties.
Vitamin C also serves as an antioxidant. It works with vitamin E as a free-radical scavenger and may reduce the risk of certain cancers, heart disease and cataracts.
Vitamin C participates in many reactions as a reducing agent by donating electrons as hydrogen atoms.