
Ascorbic acid, do you know what it is?
History of Ascorbic Acid In the mid-1700s, Royal Navy surgeon James Lind conducted controlled dietary trials and determined that citrus fruits could cure people with scurvy. However, it was not until the early 1900s that experimental scurvy was first produced in guinea pigs by dietary restriction and was shown to be prevented by feeding the animals fresh fruits and vegetables. In the early 1930s, vitamin C was isolated from fruits and vegetables and adrenal cortex and named “hexuronic acid,” which was shown to










