Before taking ascorbic acid, tell your doctor about all other medications you take.

Do not take ascorbic acid without telling your doctor if you are pregnant.

Most people who eat a normal diet do not need extra ascorbic acid.

If not using immediately, stir in ascorbic acid to preserve color.

Do not take ascorbic acid without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.

This list is not complete and there may be other drugs that can interact with ascorbic acid.

Another way to look at ascorbic acid is to consider it as an enol.

Stop using ascorbic acid and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:

Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, gets a lot of attention, and perhaps rightly so.

The addition of ascorbic acid to these products keeps the color from darkening.