Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
vitaminA water-soluble antioxidant vitamin essential for collagen synthesis, immune function, and iron absorption.
Definition
A water-soluble antioxidant vitamin essential for collagen synthesis, immune function, and iron absorption. DV is 90mg. Found in citrus fruits, bell peppers, strawberries, and broccoli.
๋นํ๋ฏผ C(์์ค์ฝ๋ฅด๋ธ์ฐ, Ascorbic Acid)๋?
๋นํ๋ฏผ C๋ ํํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ค์ฝ๋ฅด๋ธ์ฐ(Ascorbic acid)์ผ๋ก ์๋ ค์ง ์์ฉ์ฑ ๋นํ๋ฏผ์ด์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํญ์ฐํ ๋ฌผ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ํฌ์ ๋๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์ธ๊ฐ์ L-๊ตด๋ก๋ ธ๋ฝํค ์ฐํํจ์๊ฐ ์์ด ๋นํ๋ฏผ C๋ฅผ ๋ด์์ ์ผ๋ก ํฉ์ฑํ ์ ์์ด ๋ฐ๋์ ์์ด๋ก ์ญ์ทจํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋นํ๋ฏผ C๋ 18์ธ๊ธฐ ์ด์ ์ฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํญํด์์ ์๋ง์ ์ ์์ ํฌ์์์ผฐ๋ ๊ดดํ๋ณ ์๋ฐฉ ์ธ์๋ก ํ์ธ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
์ฑ์ธ์ RDA๋ ๋จ์ฑ ํ๋ฃจ 90 mg, ์ฌ์ฑ ํ๋ฃจ 75 mg์ ๋๋ค. ํก์ฐ์๋ ์ฐํ ์คํธ๋ ์ค ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธํด 35 mg/์ผ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ญ์ทจ๊ฐ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. UL์ 2,000 mg/์ผ์ ๋๋ค.
์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ
- ์ฝ๋ผ๊ฒ ํฉ์ฑ: ์์ค์ฝ๋ฅด๋ธ์ฐ์ ์ฝ๋ผ๊ฒ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ํ๋กค๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ด์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์ฐํํ๋ ํ๋กค๋ฆด ์์ฐํํจ์์ ๋ผ์ด์ค ์์ฐํํจ์์ ํ์ ์กฐ์ธ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋นํ๋ฏผ C ์์ด๋ ์ฝ๋ผ๊ฒ ์ผ์ค ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ์์ ํด์ ธ ์์ฒ ์น์ , ํ๊ด ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์ฑ, ๋ผ ๊ธฐ์ง์ด ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค โ ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๊ดดํ๋ณ์ ํน์ง์ ์ฆ์์ ๋๋ค.
- ํญ์ฐํ: ๋นํ๋ฏผ C๋ ํ์ฑ ์ฐ์์ข (ROS)์ ์ ๊ฑฐํ๊ณ , ์ฐํ๋ ๋นํ๋ฏผ E๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ธํฌ๋ง์ ์ง์ง ๊ณผ์ฐํ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ณดํธํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์ฒ ํก์: ์์ด ๋นํด์ฒ (Fe3+)์ ๋ ์ ํก์๋๋ ์ 1์ฒ ํํ(Fe2+)๋ก ์ ํํ๊ณ , ์ฅ ๋ด๊ฐ์์ ์ฒ ์ ํฌ๋ ์ดํธํํ์ฌ ํก์๋ฅผ ์ต๋ ์ธ ๋ฐฐ๊น์ง ํฅ์์ํต๋๋ค.
- ๋ฉด์ญ ์ง์: ์ค์ฑ๊ตฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ, ๋ฆผํ๊ตฌ ์ฆ์, ํญ์ฒด ์์ฑ์ ์ง์ํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์นด๋ฅด๋ํด ๋ฐ ์ ๊ฒฝ ์ ๋ฌ ๋ฌผ์ง ํฉ์ฑ: ๋ฏธํ ์ฝ๋๋ฆฌ์๋ก์ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ฐ ์ด๋ฐ์ ๊ด์ฌํ๋ ์นด๋ฅด๋ํด๊ณผ ๋ ธ๋ฅด์ํผ๋คํ๋ฆฐ์ ํฌํจํ ์ผ๋ถ ์ ๊ฒฝ ์ ๋ฌ ๋ฌผ์ง ํฉ์ฑ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ํ ๊ณต๊ธ์
ํนํ ํ๋ถํ ๊ณต๊ธ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ตฌ์๋ฐ(100 g๋น 228 mg), ํํ๋ฆฌ์นด(๋นจ๊ฐ์: 100 g๋น 128 mg), ํค์, ๊ฐ๊ทค๋ฅ ๊ณผ์ผ(์ค๋ ์ง ์ฝ 53 mg/100 g), ๋ธ๊ธฐ, ํํ์ผ, ๋ธ๋ก์ฝ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋นํ๋ฏผ C๋ ์ด์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ถ์์ ํ๊ณ ์์ฉ์ฑ์ด๋ฏ๋ก, ์ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ธ์ง๋ก ๊ฐ์ดํ๋ฉด ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ๋์ด ๋ ์ ๋ณด์กด๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Top Food Sources
| # | Food | Amount per 100g | % DV |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babyfood, GERBER, 2nd Foods, apple, carrot and squash, organic | 2730mg | 3033% |
| 2 | Beverages, fruit-flavored drink, powder, with high vitamin C with other added vitamins, low calorie | 2400mg | 2667% |
| 3 | Beverages, Orange-flavor drink, breakfast type, low calorie, powder | 2400mg | 2667% |
| 4 | Peppers, sweet, red, freeze-dried | 1900mg | 2111% |
| 5 | ใขใปใญใฉ ้ ธๅณ็จฎ ็ | 1700mg | 1889% |
| 6 | Acerola, (west indian cherry), raw | 1680mg | 1867% |
| 7 | Acerola juice, raw | 1600mg | 1778% |
| 8 | Beverages, tea, green, instant, decaffeinated, lemon, unsweetened, fortified with vitamin C | 1340mg | 1489% |
| 9 | ๏ผใใฎไป๏ผ ้ๆฑ ใฑใผใซ | 1100mg | 1222% |
| 10 | ๏ผ้ฆ่พๆ้ก๏ผ ใใปใช ไนพ | 820mg | 911% |
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Related Terms
Antioxidant
A compound that protects cells from damage by free radicals (unstable molecules from metabolism and environmental toxins).
Vitamin E (Tocopherol)
A fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin that protects cell membranes from oxidative damage.
Iron
A mineral essential for hemoglobin (oxygen transport in blood) and myoglobin (oxygen storage in muscle).
Oxidative Stress
An imbalance between free radical production and the body's antioxidant defenses.
Anemia
A condition with insufficient healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen.