Assignment A: Literature Review for vitamin c content in fruits
Testing which fruit has the highest vitamin c content
Article 1
Fenech, M., Amaya, I., Valpuesta, V. and Botella, M.A. (2019). Vitamin C Content in Fruits: Biosynthesis and
Regulation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.02006.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353827/
The topic discussed in this article is vitamin c content in fruit, and the purpose of reviewing this article is
to see how reliable the information given to us regarding the amount of vitamin c in fruits is.
This article published in 2019 by Mario Fenech, Iraida Amaya, Victoriano Valpuesta and Miguel Botella,
underlines the role of vitamin c in the body and why it's important to get it from different fruits. The
article being published online in 2019 indicates that the information provided is up to date and
therefore reliable. Included at the end of this article is a list of 255 references. Approximately 100 of the
references are recent, whilst the others are dated back to more than 20 years ago.
Thís article is relevant by explaining the importance of vitamin c in the human body and ways to absorb
the most vitamin c. Included in this article is a graph showing the fruit consumption of vitamin c globally
from 1961 to 2016. One thing about this article is that I wish there was more about vitamin c in humans
rather than animals. The author mentions a lot about how vitamin c is used in the body and the benefits.
For example, the author has highlighted the role of vitamin c in preventing scurvy and has given a brief
overview on the background.
There is a page dedicated to the role of vitamin c in fruits and plants, however it doesn’t include
anything about how vitamin c plays its role in the human body. Its mentioned how vitamin c prevents
scurvy, but the article doesn’t include anything about its role in protecting cells or its importance in the
immune system. Overall, the article contains a lot of information that isn't quite relevant to my research
I'll be carrying out. There's a lot of information about major fruit supplies and metabolism of vitamin c
but no information regarding the extraction of vitamin c.
Article 2
Harvard T.H. Chan (2020). Vitamin C. [online] The Nutrition Source. Available at:
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-c/.
This article includes benefits of vitamin c and the roles it plays in the body, unlike the first article. In this
article, the author mentions how vitamin c aids in healing wounds and controlling infections. Another
thing this article has that article 1 doesn’t, is a brief overview on the recommended amounts of vitamin
c. The information the author has given regarding the recommended amounts are specific; they have
listed the recommended allowance for adults and have factored in age, gender, and health factors.
There's a section in the article with information about the body's absorption of vitamin c. It includes
information from studies which improves the reliability of this article as the information has been peer
Testing which fruit has the highest vitamin c content
Article 1
Fenech, M., Amaya, I., Valpuesta, V. and Botella, M.A. (2019). Vitamin C Content in Fruits: Biosynthesis and
Regulation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.02006.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353827/
The topic discussed in this article is vitamin c content in fruit, and the purpose of reviewing this article is
to see how reliable the information given to us regarding the amount of vitamin c in fruits is.
This article published in 2019 by Mario Fenech, Iraida Amaya, Victoriano Valpuesta and Miguel Botella,
underlines the role of vitamin c in the body and why it's important to get it from different fruits. The
article being published online in 2019 indicates that the information provided is up to date and
therefore reliable. Included at the end of this article is a list of 255 references. Approximately 100 of the
references are recent, whilst the others are dated back to more than 20 years ago.
Thís article is relevant by explaining the importance of vitamin c in the human body and ways to absorb
the most vitamin c. Included in this article is a graph showing the fruit consumption of vitamin c globally
from 1961 to 2016. One thing about this article is that I wish there was more about vitamin c in humans
rather than animals. The author mentions a lot about how vitamin c is used in the body and the benefits.
For example, the author has highlighted the role of vitamin c in preventing scurvy and has given a brief
overview on the background.
There is a page dedicated to the role of vitamin c in fruits and plants, however it doesn’t include
anything about how vitamin c plays its role in the human body. Its mentioned how vitamin c prevents
scurvy, but the article doesn’t include anything about its role in protecting cells or its importance in the
immune system. Overall, the article contains a lot of information that isn't quite relevant to my research
I'll be carrying out. There's a lot of information about major fruit supplies and metabolism of vitamin c
but no information regarding the extraction of vitamin c.
Article 2
Harvard T.H. Chan (2020). Vitamin C. [online] The Nutrition Source. Available at:
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-c/.
This article includes benefits of vitamin c and the roles it plays in the body, unlike the first article. In this
article, the author mentions how vitamin c aids in healing wounds and controlling infections. Another
thing this article has that article 1 doesn’t, is a brief overview on the recommended amounts of vitamin
c. The information the author has given regarding the recommended amounts are specific; they have
listed the recommended allowance for adults and have factored in age, gender, and health factors.
There's a section in the article with information about the body's absorption of vitamin c. It includes
information from studies which improves the reliability of this article as the information has been peer
