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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 32, 1686-1690, Copyright © 1979 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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The effects of ascorbic acid and flavonoids on the occurrence of symptoms normally associated with the common cold

IM Baird, RE Hughes, HK Wilson, JE Davies and AN Howard

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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