Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid or simply ascorbate (the anion of ascorbic acid) is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. Vitamin C refers to a number of vitamers that have vitamin C activity in animals including ascorbic acid and its salts and some oxidized forms of the molecule like dehydroascorbic acid.
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