🍊 Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, also called ascorbic acid, that helps protect the body's cells. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) helps protect cells and keeps skin, blood vessels, bones and cartilage healthy. It is also needed for wounds to heal. The body does not store vitamin C, so you need to get it from food every day.

Cow's milk contains little vitamin C. It also does not cope well with heat: pasteurization destroys 20% or more of it. The FDA stresses that milk is not an important source of vitamin C anyway, so this loss hardly affects nutrition. There are exceptions. According to FAO, camel milk is noticeably richer in vitamin C than cow's milk. Mare's milk also has a lot of it.

The NHS says adults need about 40 mg of vitamin C a day. The main sources are fruit and vegetables: oranges, peppers, strawberries, blackcurrants, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and potatoes. If you need vitamin C, it is better to lean on fruit and vegetables. Milk is valued for other things — calcium, protein and vitamin B12.