Vitamin C 1,000 mg

Ascorbic acid tablets, usually 1,000 mg, often with rose hips or bioflavonoids. Timed-release and 'buffered' versions are gentler on the stomach.

• 1,000 mg
• Tablets or capsules
• 100–360 count

Why you’d want it: The cheapest vitamin on the shelf and the one people take alongside collagen, because collagen is built with it.

Picking tip: Plain ascorbic acid is fine and cheap. If it upsets your stomach, 'buffered' (calcium or sodium ascorbate) is the gentle kind. Take it with food; the body only keeps a few hundred milligrams at a time, so one big tablet a day is plenty.

Supplements are food, not medicine: nothing here treats or prevents anything. If you take any medicine, ask a pharmacist first.

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