How Much Apple Juice Do You Need for Daily Vitamin C?

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The experiment determined the vitamin C content in apple juice using redox titration, yielding a concentration of 0.350 mg of ascorbic acid (AA) per milliliter. To meet the FDA's recommended daily allowance of 60 mg, an individual would need to consume 171 ml of apple juice daily. In contrast, to achieve Linus Pauling's recommended daily allowance of 16,000 mg, one would require an impractical 45,714 ml of apple juice daily. The calculations performed were accurate and confirm the significant difference in vitamin C intake recommendations.

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We had to do an experiment to detrmine the amount of vitamin c(aka ascorbic acid) in a sample using redox titration. We used apple juice as a sample. I found out that there is .350mgAA/ml of sample. So the question is

How much of your sample would you need to consume to provide the FDA's recommended daily allowance of 60mg/day, and linus pauling's recommended daily allowance of 16g/day.

For the first allowance i just divided 60mg/day by .350mgAA/ml to get 171ml/day and for the second one i did the same thing and got 45714ml/day.

Did I do my calculations correctly and do the numbers seem reasonable?
 
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