What is Vitamin C

Vitamin C (also known as L-ascorbate) - water-soluble vitamin essential for higher primates.

Vitamin C is essential for growth and development.
Vitamin C plays role in:

• collagen formation (hydroxylation) (necessary for make blood vessels, tendons, skin, ligaments, scar tissues)
• synthesis of carnitine
• antioxidant
  
• dopamine beta hydroxylase
• tyrosine metabolise

Vitamin C was isolated in 1928. In 1932 it was discovered that Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.