It is best to take multivitamins after meals. Water-soluble vitamins such as folic acid, vitamin B and vitamin C, if eaten on an empty stomach before meals, will soon enter the small intestine through the stomach and be absorbed, and will be excreted through urine before being fully utilized by the human body. However, fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vitamin K must be dissolved in fatty foods to be absorbed. If you take it on an empty stomach, most of it cannot be absorbed.

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Fruits with high vitamin c content

Vitamin C is one of the most needed nutrients for human body. It has many physiological functions, such as anti-oxidation, enhancing human immunity and improving the utilization rate of iron, calcium and folic acid. For infants, the elderly and people with low vegetable intake, fruit is the main source of vitamin C.

However, many common fruits, such as bananas, apples, pears, peaches and watermelons, have low vitamin C content (< 10 mg/100 g). Citrus, grapes, mangoes, pineapples, cantaloupes and other fruits have higher vitamin C content (10 ~ 30mg/ 100g). A few fruits, such as fresh jujube, kiwi fruit, strawberry, papaya and litchi, have higher vitamin C content (> 40mg/ 100g). Among them, the vitamin C content of fresh jujube is far ahead, which is 243 mg/100 g, but it is worth noting that dried jujube loses a lot of vitamin C during drying, and its content is only 14 mg/100 g.

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