# Vitamin C requirement? : Satisfied **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 13, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857 "2021-03-13T23:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/1 "2021-03-13T23:40:19Z")
It was a glorious , unseasonably warm Saturday March 13th in Michigan. I suddenly had a worry for my Vitamin C levels. 3.5 double rye whiskey sours later , I think scurvy is defeated for a long while. Better safe than sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/2 "2021-03-13T23:57:38Z")
Also your levels of β‐methyl‐γ‐octanolide, 2‐methyl‐1‐hepten‐3‐yl acryloylate, 2H3‐syringaldehyde, and of course measurable levels of solid phase dihydrogen oxide. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/3 "2021-03-14T00:09:33Z")
You inspired me. Old Fashioned _à l’Orange,_ Juiced a small orange, muddled the peel and zested it. It had a splash of scurvy-fightin’ Cointreau too. Oh, drank it on the front stoop, in the wonderfully warm sun. First time this season! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/4 "2021-03-14T00:30:05Z")
I’m pretty sure general Medical wisdom says , “when treatment is done; repeat to make double sure”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/5 "2021-03-14T00:36:02Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I’m pretty sure general Medical wisdom says , “when treatment is done; repeat to make double sure”. - I’ll drink to that! 🍺 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/6 "2021-03-14T01:05:18Z")
Also your levels of β‐methyl‐γ‐octanolide, 2‐methyl‐1‐hepten‐3‐yl acryloylate, 2H3‐syringaldehyde ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/7 "2021-03-14T01:12:48Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Also your levels of β‐methyl‐γ‐octanolide, 2‐methyl‐1‐hepten‐3‐yl acryloylate, 2H3‐syringaldehyde With your name I keep trying to fit that to the rhythm of the opening train set verse of “The Music Man”. It doesn’t get very far, to be honest ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/8 "2021-03-14T12:18:46Z")
Don’t forget, also his levels of ethanol. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-c-requirement-satisfied/937857/9 "2021-03-14T15:02:34Z")
Well, alcohol breaks down acetaldehyde, and the quickly into acetyl radicals (not into ‘sugar’ as commonly asserted, although sucrose and fructose are also readily acetylized). From a direct nutritional standpoint alcohol is basically negligible (in any quantity a person could reasonably consume it in) but of course the effects on metabolism and particularly the production of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide + hydrogen (NADH) are marked and detrimental even in small quantities. Stranger