Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A complete recipe formula for making a vitamin c effervescent (including the binder, diluent, etc)?

Vitamin C is a hexose derivative, similar in structure to the six-carbon sugar glucose. It is an essential nutrient for humans, and, as pointed out by Linus Pauling in 1970, "differs from other nutrients in that it is required in the diet by only a few species of animals—man, other primates, the guinea pig, an Indian fruit-eating bat, and the red-vented barbul and some related species of Passeriform birds." It is also an essential nutrient for Coho salmon, rainbow trout, carp and some insects. Most other animals, all higher plant species and probably all algal classes can synthesize vitamin C from glucose or other sugars. Molecules similar to ascorbic acid are made by some fungi but not by bacteria. All vitamin C requiring animals lack the enzyme L-gulano-gamma-lactone oxidase, the final step in the synthesis of ascorbic acid from glucose.


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