Monday, January 4, 2010

How many vitamin C do we need?

From this health blog we him keep on turning to the quantities of nutrients that our organism needs in the laborious task of every day. In this occasion we have wondered: how many vitamin C do we need? After knowing the quantities of iron, calcium and magnesium, it touches him the shift to this important vitamin essential for our development.

vitamin C


One of the myths most honored on the vitamin C is that the orange is the food with more proportion of this type of vitamins. Without entran, to value, nor to discuss this affirmation, what yes is true is that as the orange, there is other food with a big vitamin quantity C in his composition. In this sense we have to stand out, over the rest, to the pepper.

But: how many vitamin C do we need? The answer we might appraise it in 110 milligrams a day. This is an approximate quantity, since also you can find other places in which they speak to you of 80 takes ó 90 mg. Of course, the vitamin ingestion C should be done of form distributed throughout the day. On the other hand, since we have seen earlier, both the fruit and the vegetable are the principal vitamin sources C.

Namely an ideal menu of ingestion of vitamin C might be composed by 1/4 of pepper and the same of grapefruit, 50 grams of canons, half a lemon and a pair of raspberries. An orange juice also has consistency sufficient to use himself. On the other hand, to take 100 % of Recommended Daily Quantity (CDR) of Vitamin C, a menu would be the following one: 200 grams of zuchini accompanied by an omelette of ham, 150 grams of mussels and of dessert a yogurt and a nectarine.

You know already, that the vitamin is missing neither in your menu nor in your diet.

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