Vitamin C in diet (or not)

Do you eat vegetables? Potatoes and cruciferous vegetables are high in vitamin C.

Sorry, what are cruciferous vegetables?

I take Magnesium Ascorbate by Biocare, which is Vit C powder but it's buffered to be gentle on the stomach.

I take the fizzy vitamin C sometimes and have acid reflux and it doesn't affect me. Eating bread or pastry or drinking coffee causes more problems. You can get the 1000mg fizzy orange tablets in Aldi very cheaply and they make a refreshing drink - doesn't do any harm anyway.

No need to go online to buy Vit C. There are more expensive ones available but all have same ingredients. Don't bother with ones that have other supplements- just VitC. There's a similar pack that has zinc etc that I've got by mistake but don't like.

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Sorry, what are cruciferous vegetables?

Anything in the cabbage family. Cabbage, sprouts, calabrese, broccoli etc. The vit. C is in the leaves.

If you eat plenty of vegetables you don't actually need to eat fruit.

Fresh meat contains vitamin C too. I found this out when I was reading about the South Pole journeys of Scott and Amundsen. One (only one; there were several) of the reasons Amundsen's expedition was successful when Scott's wasn't is that Amundsen's team ate their dogs when it became necessary and that was part of the plan all along and so did not suffer scurvy as Scott's team did.

Thanks everyone for your help. I eat mainly broccoli, asparagus and mushrooms,, and only small amount of potatoes
as my stomach doesn't cope well with cabbage sprouts turnip etc, so I eat other veg sparingly. and I definitely don't eat much that is high in vitamin C.
So I think a supplement is a good idea.
Thanks again, plenty of useful replies.
New word- cruciferous. I must remember that!

Interesting story Baggs. I'm not a great meat eater, salmon and chicken twice a week.

Do not peel potatoes. The vitamin C is between skin and spud.

Nowadays cruciferous vegetables are usually referred to as 'brassicas' ie members of the cabbage family.

Thanks Monica.

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Tinned tomatoes contain some vitamin C . I suppose if you heat tinned toms they lose vitamin C . If tinned toms are added after the end of the cooking I guess you will get significant vitamin C from them.

The reason these vegetables are called cruciferous is that their four petals form a cross.

It is not just green cabbages etc,. Also turnips, swedes and radishes are cruciferous. healthyeating.sfgate.com/list-cruciferous-vegetables-2091.html

Sources of vitamin C and the amounts they contain - ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/#h3