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News Release from: Metrohm UK | Subject: Food Titrino
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2007
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) analysis in
foodstuffs
The Metrohm Food Titrino is a compact titrator with an LCD screen for real-time curve display, and has the standard method for vitamin C analysis already loaded in it
Scurvy, the disease caused from a lack of Vitamin C, was rampant many years ago among sailors Around the year 1600, citrus fruits were introduced to cure the disease
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 11 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sailors from other parts of the world never got scurvy because they brought other vitamin C rich foods along with them.
The Vikings ate sauerkraut and the Chinese grew their own bean sprouts.
Both of these foods are high in vitamin C.
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The chemical name for vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
"A" means not or without, and "scorbutus" means scurvy, and because it is an acid, it was called ascorbic acid.
Vitamin C can help you look younger, as it encourages growth of the protein chains in collagen, which is the main ingredient in all fibrous tissue.
Fibrous tissue is your bone matrix, cartilage, tooth dentin (right under the enamel), skin, tendons, ligaments, and all other connective tissue.
Collagen is what keeps your cells bound together.
You can't make collagen without vitamin C.
Vitamin C also builds up natural body defenses.
When a cell becomes infected by a virus it produces interferon, which inhibits the reproduction of other viruses.
Interferon has to be activated by vitamin C before it can do its job.
Vitamin C helps your immune system in another way, too.
It is hard for viruses, bacteria, and their harmful byproducts to get through a tight meshwork of protein, which is what collagen is.
If the collagen is loose, the bacteria can get to underlying connective tissue and healthy cells much easier.
When your immune system is stronger, you don't get sick as easily.
Vitamin C also increases the number of lymphocytes that your body produces.
Lymphocytes eat unhealthy cells, debris, bacteria, and viruses.
A high amount of vitamin C is naturally present in citrus fruits, strawberries, green and red peppers, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, potatoes, kiwi, guava and parsley, as well as in processed food where it is added artificially.
The Metrohm Food Titrino is a compact titrator with an LCD screen for real-time curve display, and has the standard method for vitamin C analysis already loaded in it.
It is intended for universal use as it offers all the important basic methods used in food processing and manufacturing including the following industries:.
Drinking water and mineral waters.
Milk and dairy products, edible fats and oils.
Cereals, dry pasta.
Honey, sugar and sweets.
Soft drinks, lemonades Fruit and vegetable juices, jams.
Fruit, vegetable and mushroom preserves.
Table salt, spices, pickling salt, seasoning salt, herbal salt and flavoured salt.
Meat products, meat extracts, consomme cubes, jellied meat, seasonings, soups, sauces.
Beer, vinegar, liquor and wine.
Coffee, cocoa and chocolate Sweeteners, gelling and thickening agents.
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