Nutrition News Focus - Vitamin C, Antioxidant Vitamin C, Antioxidant Vitamin C is popular, in part, because it is an antioxidant. Chemically, it is referred to as a redox reagent.
Free electrons are part of normal metabolism but can do enormous damage to all cell components.
But the full story is not at all simple. Under proper conditions, any antioxidant can also behave as a pro-oxidant. One cannot control the conditions in various parts of the body that make vitamin C an antioxidant or a pro-oxidant. Now when nutrition news gets confusing, there IS a place to go to get the real story. Our FREE daily email newsletter, Nutrition News Focus, helps you make sense of it all.