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Vitamin C is also a water-soluble vitamin that is absorbed directly into your bloodstream in your small intestines after it has been freed from food. Vitamin C is essential for good health and plays a number of important roles in your body.
It has been shown that the dosage-excretion patterns of vitamins differ. Many factors, most of which are not fully understood, are involved in vitamin absorption. These include mode of administration, pharmaceutical form and size of the dose as well as site of absorption of the vitamin. The size of dose significantly influences the percentage of excretion of thiamine and vitamin B12 but has no effect on that of ascorbic acid, niacinamide or riboflavin.