Food Tip: Vitamin C & Fruit Juice

by Shereen Jegtvig

Vitamin C is so important for the human body.  It’s necessary for keeping your immune system strong and for building connective tissue that you need for healthy skin (that means fewer wrinkles) and sturdy bones.  Vitamin C is also an antioxidant that helps protect the cells in your body from damage due to free radicals from the environment, sun damage and even as a result of normal metabolism.

The best dietary sources of vitamin C are fruits and vegetables, including citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit, guava, strawberries, broccoli, peppers and potatoes.  If you eat five to nine servings of these fruits and vegetables every day you should be getting all the vitamin C you need.  However, vitamin C doesn’t hang around long so once fruits and vegetables are peeled, cut, sliced, cooked or processed, the vitamin C content starts to deteriorate.  In general, fruits lose about 30% of their vitamin C content when canned or bottled as juice.  Read more

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