Comments on: Sustainable sources of vitamin C to see you through the Winter

By: Easy Vegan Tomato Soup | Miss Nutritionista

Easy Vegan Tomato Soup | Miss Nutritionista — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:20:57 +0000

[…] To see a complete list of top winter vitamin C sources (mg of vitamin C per 100g serving) read this article from Mostly Eating. Now let’s talk about this delicious soup. Let me tell you that it’s vegan and […]

By: Sophie

Sophie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:40:28 +0000

It’s quite funny how I discovered your very pretty blog just now! I actually left a comment on someone else’s blog, and I noticed there was a comment already left by a “Sophie” but I initially thought it was my own! As I was reading it, I was thinking to myself “Wait a minute, I didn’t say that” because I’m the only Sophie with a food blog…or at least I used to think so! Nice meeting you! It’s nice to know that I share a name with someone who has great blogging skills, your pictures are truly amazing and I really like how crisp your entire blog looks!
Sophie :)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:11:27 +0000

Great informative post. :) I had no idea that peas were a significant source of vitamin C. I think I “stirfry” my vegetables too long so I should try to be more organized when I’m cooking and not end up doing that.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:27:33 +0000

Luckily living in Florida, we have lots of oranges and fresh fruit to keep us going year round. But I must say, doing a little research on frozen veggies, I turn towards them when something “green” is out of season here. My favorite frozen veggie is Peas! They are great as a snack, yes just pop them in your mouth while frozen and go in as a filler in many stews and pastas. And they are great just on their own as a side dish! No, I do not work for a pea farm…just love um’!
Great informative post Sophie!

By: Sophie

Sophie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:38:21 +0000

Hi Johanna – yuck, sprout smoothie! I keep hearing about people eating them raw in salads but I haven’t picked up the courage to try them. You’re right about the more exotic fruits – my aim has been to avoid importing from afar as much as possible hence the emphasis on frozen goods and very bog standard vegetables. Parsley has around 190 mg of vitamin C per 100g (loads!) but the big difference between herbs and fruit and veggies is that people eat them in much lower quantities – they tend to be a minor ingredient or garnish (unless you eat parsley salads or make tabbouleh in the very traditional way). My garden parsley has died but theoretically it should be possible to keep parsley growing through the British Winter.
Ric – potatoes is a good one which I missed out. They come fairly low down the list, somewhere between leeks and carrots, but the advantage with potatoes is that a lot of people eat them regularly. I hate to say it but one of the highest potato sources of vitamin C is potato chips/crisps because they are cooked so quickly!
Glad to hear that there’s no scurvy in NZ :-)

By: Ric

Ric — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:05:31 +0000

It’s not too far away from wintertime here in New Zealand, so I’ll have to keep in mind all those vitamin C-rich foods. Luckily we eat plenty of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peas and potatoes in our household already, so I don’t think we’ll be coming down with scurvy any time soon. :)

By: johanna

johanna — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:28:35 +0000

how about herbs? don’t parsley and dandelion have tons of vitC, more even than an orange? or the more exotic fruit, like guava and pawpaw? mind you, those will have lost all their vit content being picked way too early and shipped around the world to reach us… your yoghurt seems the way to go, but i’ll stick with the fruit, even though the sprouts might have more vits, i can’t for the life of me imagine drinking them in a smoothie ;-)

By: Sophie

Sophie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:29:59 +0000

This makes sense Wendy. I’m ever the scientist with these things and although vitamin C doesn’t seem to stop people getting colds, it does stop colds being quite so bad and lasting for so long once you’ve been unfortunate enough to catch one

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:26:32 +0000

Another very informative post. Thank you!
It may not be proven that vitamin C helps prevents colds but whenever I feel a sniffle coming on I eat vast amounts of oranges. Have to say, I don’t remember the last time I had a bad cold.