Ahaa: this fruit contains the most Vitamin C

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: this fruit contains the most vitamin C.

If you need an extra dose of vitamin C, you will probably squeeze oranges, scoop out a grapefruit, or make hot tea with lemon. But there is fruit that contains much more vitamin C than citrus fruits. What is it? Acerola. We had never even heard of it.

Acerola, also known as West Indian cherry or Barbados cherry, contains thirty times more vitamin C than an orange. They are yellow-orange cherries, with an orange or red ribbed skin. Delicious in yogurt or as fresh fruit, it says on the Veggipedia website, because they taste sweet and sour. Even jam, desserts and cake acerola is healthy, because no other fruit has as much vitamin C.

Acerola powder
Disadvantage: it is not available in the Netherlands. The cherries grow in South America and are too fragile to package and transport. You can sometimes buy acerola powder at health food stores for a vitamin boost. If you prefer fresh vegetables, go for guava (168 mg vitamin C per 100 grams) or blackcurrants (128 mg per 100 grams). Kiwis are also always good, with no less than 65 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams. However, acerola easily outshines them all: no less than 1685 mg of vitamin C in 100 grams.

Not exotic
And did you know that there is also vitamin C in vegetables? Top performers are Brussels sprouts (150 mg) and kale (100 mg). Nothing exotic about it, but plenty of vitamins. So if you catch a cold, go for the Brussels sprouts. More vitamin C than oranges (50 mg) or lemons (45 mg).