The consumption of fruits rich in vitamin C would be more beneficial to health than the intake of vitamin C in isolation, according to a scientific experiment conducted by Italians. Vitamin C is vital for health, for example, helps the development of teeth and gums, maintains healthy skin, protects people from colds and intake prevents scurvy.
From the molecular point of view, the fruits rich in Vitamin C are powerful antioxidants that protect cell membranes and DNA damage caused by oxidants or free radicals, unstable molecules with reactive power that are formed from oxygen is metabolized by the body cells.
Dr. Serena Guarnieri and a team of researchers from the Department of Human Nutrition, University of Milan, Italy, conducted an experiment whose results indicate that the juice of orange has a higher antioxidant capacity that vitamin C alone. The results of this study were published in the scientific journal British Journal of Nutrition.
The study involved seven young people who gave them to drink a glass of juice of orange, a glass of water with vitamin C tablets and a glass diluted with sugar water, sometimes at intervals of two weeks.
The glass of juice and the orange glass of water with vitamin C tablets containing 150 milligrams diluted vitamin Vitamin C: The Consumption of Natural Fruit Juice is better than the Tablets
C each, while the drink of water mixed with sugar that contained no vitamin.
