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Article: Vitamin C earns an A.
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Why the star vitamin stood out in 1999.
In our relatively new end-of-year tradition of choosing a vitamin or mineral that played a major role in nutrition and food processing during the previous 12 months, we've focused on vitamin E and calcium. This year we've decided that vitamin C deserves recognition--and not just because this writer had a cold at the time this column was due.
Increased RDA for vitamin C?
Last April, Dr. Mark Levine of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues reviewed the roles of vitamin C in the healthy function of the body. They presented their suggestion that the recommended dietary allowance ...