The effects of ascorbic acid and flavonoids on the occurrence of symptoms normally associated with the common cold
| Autor: | A N Howard, I M Baird, J.E.W. Davies, R E Hughes, H.K. Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Orange juice
Adult Flavonoids Male Nutrition and Dietetics Time Factors Adolescent business.industry Medicine (miscellaneous) Common Cold Common cold Orange (colour) Ascorbic Acid medicine.disease Ascorbic acid Placebo Sex Factors Biochemistry Sex factors Medicine Humans Female Food science business |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of clinical nutrition. 32(8) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9165 |
| Popis: | A controlled study was made of the effects of natural orange juice, synthetic orange juice, and placebo in the prevention of the common cold; both natural and synthetic orange juices contained 80 mg of ascorbic acid daily. Three-hundred sixty-two healthy normal young adult volunteers, ages 17 to 25 years, were studied for 72 days with 97% of participants completing the trial. There was a 14 to 21% reduction in total symptoms due to the common cold in the supplemented groups that was statistically significant (P less than 0.05). Ascorbic acid supplementation also increased the number of "episode-free" subjects. However, the clinical usefulness of the results does not support prophylactic ascorbic acid supplements in the well-nourished adult. The results in this study with both natural and synthetic orange juice of physiological content of ascorbic acid, are similar to those obtained using a "megadose" of ascorbic acid. |
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