How to divide up 1 oz of Vit C?

[steve marino]

I purchased 1 oz of Vit C on eBait w/ the intent of taking 500 mg twice a day. The problem is, since I moved I can't find my kitchen measuring spoons. I read somewhere that 500 mg was roughly 1/8th of a teaspoon, but having no teaspoon, this is no help. Is there a way to sort of eyeball what 500 mg looks like? Obviously it can't be the size of the tablets I was taking until they ran out, because they were quite large. Probably all the binders in there? Would 500 mg be perhaps the size of a dime spread flat on the table? I would say a button, but all I wear is T-shirts or sweat shirts, so no buttons here either.

 

[Browneye]

Mg is a weight. There are 28 grams to an ounce. Get a scale and just do the math, or use a converter. You don't measure it with a spoon unless you know the total volume by weight, and convert it that way.

1g is a thousand mg.

1oz would make 56 doses. 2X28g =56 500mg doses

if you're taking it as a supplement it might be easier to make 1000mg doses - or a thirty day supply. Unless you're going to super-dose, and they say that's not a great idea. Get some zinc in there too.

 

[PDoz]

69....metric replaced oz in oz, we got rid of that weird slippery slope thing / and replaced it with x

 

[steve marino]

Ah. 56 doses. Or 69 as PDoz said? Somewhere in there should be close enough. That's what I needed to hear. Thank you. My days of having a gram scale are thankfully far behind me!, but I do remember that 1 oz is 28.34 grams, that's indelibly etched in there, LOL. I have tables written down for my black and white darkroom work, but that's all liquid measurements. Don't like to fool w/ powder developers except for Kodak D76 and Microdol X, and we're talking gallons w/ that stuff. Thanks again.

From what I understand about vit c Browneye, we need to take it at least twice a day because it just gets eliminated in our urine otherwise. Our kidneys can only process so much at a time. In fact, I am going to cut this down to 250 mg. Like everything nutrition and vitamin related, it just depends on what we're doing during the day because that will determine the dosage. Stress can eat up nutrients quickly too.

I tend to ride a lot in the mornings and drink lots of water to flush things out, so taking 250 mg 2X daily should work well, along w/ my daily amino acids and other vitamins. Of course, better to get it in our foods, but that's not always possible every day. I think caffeine and sugar eats vit c up too, and I drink coffee w/ a little sugar before heading out on the bike.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

If 1 ounce is 28 grams then Browneye is right: 56 doses.

 

[Browneye]

I can barely remember to take pills once a day. I would have to stage them so they're in my way or I would forget them.
Doc put me on BP and Crestor, and you're not supposed to take them together, so the only way I remember is to alternate. Good enough.
C is good for mucous membranes. And an assortment of other things...

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Going off topic, I just want to mention sometimes the imperial/metric conversions are hard. Take guitar or bass strings: by convention their gauge is given in fractions of the inch. Now, it is very hard to tell the 0.010 from the 0.013 string if all you have got is a metric slide caliper. Luckily, the modern digital slide caliper allows displaying measurements in in/mm. It was not so only several years ago.

 

[Explorer-1]

Forget about it. Go for a walk.

 

[tomjasz]

FWIW, ascorbic acid also will neutralize chlorinated water. Many water sources have enough chlorine for a swimming pool. I buy it by the kilo. and add to my daily drinking water bottles.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I'd like to know what exactly chemical reaction of the ascorbic acid neutralises chlorine

 

[tomjasz]

I'd like to know what exactly chemical reaction of the ascorbic acid neutralizes chlorine

See Vita D Chlor and American Waterworks

Ascorbic Acid
One gram of ascorbic acid will neutralize 1 milligram per liter of chlorine per 100 gallons of water. The reaction is very fast. The chemical reaction (Tikkanen and others 2001) of ascorbic acid with chlorine is shown below:

C5H5O5CH2OH + HOCL → C5H3O5CH2OH + HCl + H2O

Ascorbic acid + Hypochlorous acid → Dehydroascorbic acid + Hydrochloric acid + water

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Approximately 2.5 parts of ascorbic acid are required for neutralizing 1 part chlorine. Since ascorbic acid is weakly acidic, the pH of the treated water may decrease slightly in low alkaline waters.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Thank you Tom. I knew the ascorbic acid was an antioxidant and I can see it has found an interesting application.

 

[jaizon]

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