Vitamic C Food List
Vitamin C helps make collagen, which helps bind your cells together. In this way, vitamin C helps keep your gums healthy and aids in the healing of cuts and wounds. Vitamin C helps your body absorb iron. If you eat foods with vitamin C and iron at the same meal, your body absorbs up to three times more iron.
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. These nutrients help protect your cells from damage that can increase your risk of certain diseases, such as cancer. Vitamin C strengthens your immune system. However, research has not shown that high doses of vitamin C will prevent or cure a common cold.
Vitamin C Food List
- Red peppers
- Green peppers
- Cranberry juice cocktail
- Broccoli 1 cup 101 (cooked)
- Strawberries, sliced
- Brussels sprouts, cooked
- Orange juice
- Snow peas, cooked
- Pineapple
- Oranges or kiwi fruit
- Grapefruit juice or vegetable juice cocktail, canned
- Cantaloupe
- Mangos
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Asparagus, cooked
- Peas, cooked
- Raspberries, blackberries, or honeydew, raw
- Lemons, raw
- Soybeans, cooked
- Spinach, canned
- Sweet potato (with skin), cooked
- Okra, cooked
- Watermelon, raw
- Tomatoes, raw or canned
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