She continues, “Vitamin C in its pure form, called ascorbic acid, has a very short shelf life ... premium products that do what they say on the tin. The label has followed suit from the likes ...

Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a small carbohydrate molecule first identified in the 1920s by Albert von Szent Györgyi, who discovered that it was able to prevent and cure scurvy.

IT is frequently impossible to perform an analysis of ascorbic acid in foods immediately after sampling. In some cases a delay of as long as 24 hours is unavoidable, and doubts have arisen as to ...