Apr 10, 2018 | Skin Care, Vitamin C
With all these serums on the market and the articles in beauty magazines, the message is clear: Vitamin C is critical to your skin. But how? The function of vitamin C for skin care — and how to properly supplement — is as complicated as this outer, protective organ...
Apr 7, 2018 | Vitamin C, Vitamins and Nutrients
The U.S. government recommends a daily Vitamin C dosage for adult women at 75 mg and for adult men at 90 mg. That means you’ve already met your daily allowance by eating one large orange. Weird, huh? Not if you’ve seen the food pyramid which is primarily composed of...
Mar 9, 2018 | Vitamin C, Vitamins and Nutrients
Every Vitamin C brand — including us — may use orange on their product labels, thereby perpetuating the association of oranges with high Vitamin C content. And it’s for good reason; one navel orange has about 83 mg of Vitamin C, 138% of your recommended daily...
Mar 7, 2018 | Vitamins and Nutrients
It’s a case of two being better than one. Not just because two is more, but because when you’re talking nutrient combinations, one plus one can equal two in quantity but a whole lot more in quality. Certain vitamins, minerals, and amino acids work together...
Feb 26, 2018 | Vitamin C, Vitamins and Nutrients
Vitamin C is water-soluble. It isn’t just heat that destroys Vitamin C; it is heated water that steals it before it gets into your system. Many common cooking methods, like boiling, can cause the vitamin to leach out of food. That means the water in which you...
