• DOI:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)74644-9
Corpus ID: 1288708

VITAMIN C IN VEGETABLES

@inproceedings{Mack2003VITAMINCI,
  title={VITAMIN C IN VEGETABLES},
  author={G. L. Mack and D. Tressler},
  year={2003}
}

• G. L. Mack, D. Tressler
• Published 2003

The oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid may be cat,alyzed by copper (1, 8)) by ot,her metals (11) and metallic compounds, by norit charcoal (5)) and by an enzyme or enzyme complex (12, 13). The dehydroascorbic acid has an antiscorbutic activity similar to that of ascorbic acid (6) and may be reduced to the latter by the use of H,S and other reductants (14) The existence of ascorbic acid oxidase in cabbage leaves was shown by Szent-GyGrgyi (12) in 1931. Tauber, Kleiner? and… Expand