What fruit contains the most Vitamin C?

Answer 1

Top ten ranking of fruits is based upon their content of these nutrients: vitamin C, fiber, carotenoids, calcium, and folic acid. Availability, safety, and versatility also influenced these choices:

Avocado
Papaya
Guava
Cantaloupe
Orange
Apricots (dried, unsulfured)
Mango
Strawberries (organic)
Kiwi
Grapefruit (pink or red)

Answer 2

Vitamin C-rich fruits



Vitamin C-rich foods include papaya, guava, pomelo, dalanghita, anonas, kasuy, datiles, atis, tomato, balimbing, guyabano and mango (Table 1). A slice of papaya or a medium-sized guava is enough to provide the body with its daily requirement for vitamin C.



Table 4. Vitamin C content of some fruits


Food
Food item
Vitamin C (mg)
Food item
Vitamin C (mg)
Cashew
167
Lemon
45
Guava red
158
Durian
44
Jamaica Cherry (datiles)
150
Lime
41
Madras Thorn (kamachile)
143
Carristel tiesa
40
Guava white
127
Sugar apple (kaymito)
40
Strawberry
97
Melon
34
Rambutan
91
Star fruit (atis)
33
Custard apple (anonas)
90
Banana saba
32
Papaya ripe
74
Sapodilla(chico)
28
Mango Manila, unripe
70
Soursop (guyabano)
27
Mango piko, unripe
65
Banana tuldok
26
Mango Indian
61
Banana lakatan
25
Spanish plum (siniguelas)
50
Orange (dalandan)
24
Mango Manila ripe
49
Banana latundan
21
Pomelo (suha)
46
Banana bungulan
20
Calamansi
45

Source: The Philippine Food Composition Tables. Food and Nutrition Research Institute. 1997.


Vitamin C is important for the formation of healthy bones and teeth; increased body resistance to infection and the prevention of scurvy. As mentioned earlier, vitamin C is also important for the improved absorption of non-heme iron from green leafy vegetables.


Incidentally, vitamin C can only be obtained from plant food sources.

Answer 3

Kiwi Fruits

Answer 4

Orange

Answer 5

Vitamin C is found in a wide spectrum of popular foods, but occurs most commonly in citrus fruits such as lemons, limes, and grapefruits, as well as tomatoes.
Leafy greens such as collards, spinach, and turnip greens are good sources of needed vitamin C in either raw or cooked forms.
Other good food sources of vitamin C include rosehips, strawberries, watercress, papaya, and mangos.
Potatoes and green vegetables such as broccoli, brussel sprouts, and cabbage also provide this essential nutrient.

Answer 6

Orange & Lemon has maximum Vitamin C

Answer 7

Amla has a great number of diet C and that i heard that it is not destroyed even in cooking. For all different fruit and veges which comprise diet C, the diet starts off to vanish while it is cut back and little or no is left of it after cooking, if any. I used to take heed to that potatoes have it yet as we frequently eat them cooked i ask your self what use this is. it is extremely uncomplicated, a minimum of in western organic treatments, to do a cleansing quickly wherein one purely takes nimbu pani, lemon in water, for some days. I extremely have in no way heard that too many are undesirable for you. i understand people who drink copious quantities of the undiluted juice and declare they have in no way been so healthful. Moderation is nice in all issues yet do not underuse the superb lemon.

Answer 8

Citrus things like oranges and lemon contains most of vit C
so try to have these things if you feel that u have deficiency of vitamin C

Enjoy !!

Answer 9

A kiwi. Just one contains more than 200 % the value of Vit C per day

Answer 10

Oranges, Strawberries,