For more and more peo­ple, a healthy and bal­anced diet means an impor­tant, active con­tri­bu­tion to health and enjoy­ment of life. This also includes strength­en­ing the immune sys­tem. To coun­ter­act a lack of vit­a­mins and min­er­als, many con­sumers take advan­tage of dietary sup­ple­ments, espe­cial­ly at the begin­ning of fall and winter.

Prob­a­bly one of the best known dietary sup­ple­ments is vit­a­min C. In food, vit­a­min C is found main­ly in fruits and veg­eta­bles. Cit­rus fruits such as oranges and lemons or even var­i­ous types of cab­bage con­tain a lot of vit­a­min C. Organ­ic ascor­bic acid is a col­or­less and odor­less, eas­i­ly water-sol­u­ble crys­talline sol­id with an acidic taste. Its salts are called ascor­bates. Due to its bio­log­i­cal activ­i­ty, L-(+)-ascorbic acid used in prepa­ra­tions for food sup­ple­ments. L-(+)-ascorbic acid and also its deriv­a­tives, hav­ing the same effect, are called vit­a­min C.

But it is not always pos­si­ble to cov­er the need for nutri­ents and vit­a­mins through food alone. Food sup­ple­ments there­fore remain a use­ful com­ple­ment for the sup­ply of essen­tial build­ing blocks.

Vit­a­min C con­tributes to a healthy diet and has an impor­tant pos­i­tive influ­ence on a vari­ety of bod­i­ly functions.

Among oth­ers, it con­tributes to: