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Vitamins hate humidity
15 March 2010
If you keep your vitamins in your kitchen or bathroom then they may not be doing the good for you that you think they are. It’s all due to a process called “deliquescence” wherein humidity causes a water-soluble solid to dissolve. Vitamin C and the B vitamins are, for instance, water soluble. This research determined the humidities at which a substance would deliquesce. At room temperature sodium ascorbate (a form of vitamin C) deliquesces at 86 per cent humidity. Ascorbic acid (another form of vitamin C) deliquesces at 98 per cent humidity while some ingredient blends deliquesce in as low as 30 per cent humidity. Once humidity drops the ingredient will resolidify but the damage cannot be reversed. The products aren’t dangerous but you aren’t getting what you paid for. As the saying goes, “If you can’t stand the humidity, get your vitamins out of the kitchen.”
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