Vitamin C: How much do you need? Eat these seven foods to avoid a deficiency

VITAMIN C has several important functions in the body, including helping to protect cells and keep them healthy. But if you fail to get enough, you risk getting scurvy. So how much do you need to avoid a deficiency?

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, not only helps to protect cells and keep them healthy, but helps maintain healthy skin, blood vessels, bones and cartilage, and helps with wound healing.

You should be able to get enough of the vitamin through the foods you eat, but if a deficiency does occur, a person becomes at increased risk of scurvy.

Scurvy symptoms include feeling very tired and weak all the time, feeling irritable and sad all the time, severe joint or leg pain, and swollen, bleeding gums.

So how much vitamin C does a person need to avoid a deficiency and scurvy?