SINCE 1828
dehydroascorbic acid
noun
de·hy·dro·ascor·bic acid
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Medical Definition of dehydroascorbic acid
: a crystalline oxidation product C6H6O6 of vitamin C that occurs at times in some foodstuffs (as fruits, vegetables, and milk) and can be reduced to vitamin C
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