Some people also choose to take vitamin C supplements through for the sake of its needs. Although important , but according to clinical nutrition specialist Fiastuti Witjaksono , does not mean that vitamin C should be consumed in excess .
" The need for vitamin C an adult 's body is only 75 milligrams per day , if you eat more than that it will be issued , " he said in a media gathering held by Zespri Kiwifruit , on Monday ( 06/02/2014 ) in Jakarta .
He explains , vitamin C has properties of water soluble so easily removed by the body through urine . Because it is so too , the vitamin C can not be stored too long in the body .
" So if we now eat up to 1,000 mg of vitamin C for 10 days backup certainly could not , would be excreted by the body . Vitamin C should be consumed regularly every day , " said a doctor from the Department of Nutritional Sciences , Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia - Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital ( Faculty of medicine / RSCM ) this .
Although easily removed , but in fact there are circumstances that make vitamin C is in the body longer . Fiastuti mentioned , vitamin C is consumed through fruits will last longer than vitamin C from supplements .
Research from the University of Otago conducted on mice showed that vitamin C to survive longer in the network if given of the fruit than from supplements . Researchers proved , after two days to a week , although decreased dramatically , but the levels of vitamin C in the tissues of mice was higher when administered through the fruit .
Consumption enough vitamin C has many benefits , among others, as an antioxidant , a cofactor of collagen formation and various hormones , increase immune system , to prevent a variety of diseases .
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