Can you have too much Vitamin C?

[peasea]

It never ceases to amaze me how we can go from talking about Vitamin C to driving Dodge Vipers in 3 posts.

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How often has it happened??

[Skyryder]

It could. Vitamin C is a toxin. Eating too much fruit or drinking too much orange juice could make you feel nauseous and give you diarrhoea. This is the body reacting to a mild case of toxic poisoning.

You probably won't get that by taking lots of vitamin C tables, as in most cases with tables, the body does not absorb the vitamins from them very easily. Even products with "added vitamin C" (a marketing ploy instead of saying preservative 202 Potassium sorbate) won't give you much vitamin C either as it is quite unstable. Just because they put it in - it doesn't mean you get it. Fresh fruit and vegetables are the best for getting vitamins.

But on a serious note this man is right.


Skyryder