Question

What is the chemical name of Vitamin C?
1. Citric Acid
2. Ascorbic Acid
3. Thiamine
4. Tartaric Acid

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Ascorbic Acid

The correct answer is Ascorbic Acid

• Vitamin means 'vital for life'.
• Vitamin is an organic non-protein substance.
• Vitamins are compounds necessary for the healthy functioning of our bodies.
• We need vitamins to help us grow, to see correctly, as well as to help us battle infections.
• It is required by an organism for normal metabolic function but cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantity by that organism.
• They are also required in small quantities to prevent deficiency diseases.​

Vitamin C:

• Ascorbic acid is the chemical name of vitamin C.
• Vitamin C is the first artificially synthesized vitamin.
• Vitamin C is essential for the healing of wounds, repair, and maintenance of cartilage, bone, and teeth.
• Vitamin C deteriorated through cooking and canning of food.
• Sources: citrus fruit, such as lemons, oranges and orange juice, amla, peppers, strawberries, blackcurrants, broccoli, sprouted pulses and potatoes.
• Scurvy is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin C
• It is a nutritional disorder mostly characterized by rashes or red spots on the skin.
• Muscle pain, body pain, fatigue and bleeding gums or tooth loss are other common symptoms of scurvy.

Thus, the Chemical name of Vitamin C is Ascorbic acid.

Citric and Tartaric acid:

• They are weak organic acids.
• Usually encountered as a white solid.
• It occurs naturally in citrus fruits. 

Vitamins	Chemical Name	Deficiency Disease
Vitamin A	Retinol	Night Blindness
Vitamin B1	Thiamine	Beriberi
Vitamin C	Ascorbic Acid	Scurvy
Vitamin D	Calciferol	Rickets and osteomalacia
Vitamin K	Phylloquinone	Non-clotting of Blood
Vitamin B2	Riboflavin	Cracking of Skin