# No Vitamin C in lemon juice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874 "2005-07-30T10:08:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/21 "2014-05-20T23:44:27Z")

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> [@dstarfire](#):
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> You do realize zombies don’t actually need vitamins, don’t you?

Cite?

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/22 "2014-05-20T23:59:42Z")

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Well [brains](http://www.news-medical.net/health/Sources-of-Vitamin-C.aspx)do have about 17 mg Vitamin C/100 gm serving (and that’s cooked!) A human brain weighs in at 1.5kg leading to almost 3 times daily human RDA in just one brain … so zombies are probably okay there. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/23 "2014-05-21T16:36:51Z")

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> [@norinew](#):
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> :smack: Of course, if you want _tarness_ in your cooking, that’s probably a sign of some sort of vitamin deificiency.

Do zombies deify vitamins?

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/24 "2014-05-21T17:54:58Z")

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> [@Learjeff](#):
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> Do zombies deify vitamins?

As long as you want to know what zombies do, you may as well ask a dead person.

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**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/25 "2014-05-21T18:26:36Z")

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And here I was wondering if **norinew** came back from beyond. ☹

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/26 "2014-05-21T18:33:22Z")

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Would you even be able to tell if a zombie had scurvy?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vitamin-c-in-lemon-juice/314874/27 "2014-05-21T19:07:32Z")

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Since this question was answered 9 years ago, and no new information has been added (and is mostly just flybait for zombie jokes), I’m going to close this.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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