Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

Healthy eatingReset filters
66 results
  • Crystallised ginger, SEM
  • Bulbs of garlic
  • Pumpkin, axial view, MRI
  • Passion fruit, axial view, MRI
  • Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM
  • Cheese-flavoured puffed corn snack
  • Vitamin C
  • Strawberry, sagittal view, MRI
  • Lemon, axial view, MRI
  • Squash, sagittal view, MRI
  • Healthy eating
  • Raw onion, illustration
  • Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) fruit
  • Raspberry
  • French fry (chip)
  • French fry (chip)
  • Granadilla, axial view, MRI
  • Crystallised ginger, SEM
  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • Raw ginger, SEM
  • Crystallised ginger, illustration
  • Guava, axial view, MRI
  • Artichoke, sagittal view, MRI
  • Mandarin orange, sagittal view, MRI
  • Vitamin C, also known as a ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin, which means it is excreated by the body and needs to be replaced in our diet. Unlike most mammals, humans do not have the ability to make their own vitamin C. Vitamin C deficiency can lead to scurvy.
  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • You've been fed, hand drawn illustration
  • Apple, sagittal view, MRI
  • Vitamin C imaged with polarised light. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an important vitamin, essential for collagen formation and wound healing, it also facilitates to absorption of iron. A good source of Vitamin C is found in a variety of fruit and vegetables, notably citrus friuts, kiwi and broccoli. It is a water soluble vitamin so is excreted by the body and, therefore, needs to be ingested regularly. A lack of Vitamin C causes scurvy.
  • Raw potato