Ascorbic Acid versus Sodium Ascorbate | 合法藥品大搜索

Inthisblog,Iwilladdressthedifferencebetweenascorbicacid(ASC)andsodiumascorbate(NaASC)toasmalldegreeintheiroraluseandtoalargerdegreein ...

A great deal of information circulates about ascorbic acid and various forms of it which are available. Thoughts as to its chemistry, absorption, and bioavailability and other factors are debated more so in the arena of social media and less so in the scientific community.

In this blog, I will address the difference between ascorbic acid (ASC) and sodium ascorbate (NaASC) to a small degree in their oral use and to a larger degree in their intravenous (IV) use.

Ascorbic acid is an organic acid with a ring structure similar to glucose. It mainly exists in two forms in humans L-ascorbate (reduced form – ASC) and Dehydroascorbate (oxidized form- DHA). (To be complete there is an intermediate molecule the ascorbate radical which has one more electron than DHA, and one less than ASC, but it converts to DHA in milliseconds normally.) As such it absorbs partly via GLUT transporters but also via spe...