Can drinking ViC bubble tablets make your child less sick?

There are advertisements proclaiming that "a piece of vitamin C equals four oranges", and there are often gossips that vitamin C can cure colds and enhance immunity. So many parents buy ViC bubble tablets from abroad to give their children daily drinking. But does the ViC bubble really have these effects?
C is an essential nutrient for the human body and has important physiological functions. If the lack of vitamin C, it does cause some bio-chemical reactions in the body can not be carried out normally, thus affecting health. However, this does not mean that "extra supplementation" of vitamin C can have any effect on disease prevention..　"A piece of VC equals four oranges" is a complete
a simple and intuitive equivalent that often appears in advertisements. It looks "very scientific", but it's a complete concept of stealing and confusing.
the actual content of different vitamin C supplements, the usual vitamin C foam tablets for a piece containing 100 mg of vitamin C. ViC in different varieties, growth conditions, and oranges of different sizes also varies greatly, typically about 50 milligrams in 100 grams of oranges. That is, even considering VC only, the content of a ViC bubble sheet is equivalent to only 2 medium-sized oranges.
more importantly, "only consider VC" is completely unreasonable. Oranges also contain many other health-beneficial ingredients, such as dietary fiber. In addition to vitamin C, oranges also contain considerable vitamins such as vitamins A and B, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and many polyphenols, flavonoids, "bioactive ingredients." Therefore, the value of an orange to nutrition and health is far from being matched by a piece of vitamin C.
vitamin C can treat colds, but
vitamin C to improve immunity or treat colds is very popular. There is a lot of research on taking Vitamin C to treat colds. In 2007, a study collected, collated, and summarized the previous 60 years of research on the relationship between vitamin C and cold, the result is: after a cold to take 200 mg and more vitamin C, neither shorten the duration of the cold, nor reduce the weight of the cold.
important, does not mean that the need to "complement
viC is important for good health, lack of vitamin C will lead to a number of physiological decline in function, thereby "reducing immunity." As a result, many advertisements have swapged this scientific understanding for "complementary vitamin C to enhance immunity". This argument is based on the premise that the child lacks ViC.
in short, if a child is able to eat a normal diet every day, eat one or two hundred grams of vegetables, and a fruit, it is easy to eat enough vitamin C. As long as you take enough vitamin C from your diet, there is no need to take vitamin C tablets or other supplements. On the other way, if the diet is unreasonable, partial food, then rely on eating vitamin C tablets or other nutritional supplements, only to meet the needs of vitamin C, but not enough to ensure a comprehensive and balanced nutrition, still can not protect the normal "immunity."ViC bubble tablets are particularly unsuitable for children
the "active ingredient" in vics is ViC, generally 100 mg per tablet, enough to meet the needs of an adult for a day, especially for children.
in order to improve the taste, there will be some sugar or sweetener in the ViC bubble tablets. However, a bubble tablets a total of about 4 grams, of which the amount of sugar or sweeteners are not much, do not need to tangle.
ingredients that make bubbles "foam" are citric acid and sodium bicarbonate (or sodium carbonate). In water, the two react and quickly release large amounts of carbon dioxide, creating a surging foaming effect.
sodium citric acid and bicarbonate or sodium carbonate are legitimate food additives and do not pose a health hazard in themselves. However, the amount needed in the foam is very large, and the sodium content is very high. The market mainstream of ViC foam tablets, each piece of sodium content of nearly 500 mg. The recommended maximum sodium intake for children between the ages of 1 and 3 is 700 mg. A vitamin C bubble tablets, accounted for 70% of the child's daily sodium intake, plus normal food, basically "exceeding the standard."
a lot of people like to tangle "foreign ViC bubble film?" "Wherever it's made, as long as it's a ViC bubble, it's a combination of these ingredients. It may vary in value, but the problem of "containing a lot of sodium" must be there.
(Koxin Food and Nutrition Information Exchange)