Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) A0EXN RPC Derivatives/ ingredients ** Core term *

The group includes Vitamin C used for fortification or enrichment of foods. Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid, or simply ascorbate (the anion of ascorbic acid), is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species

Core term (Level of detail)

The standard level of detail — what FoodEx2 recommends aiming for. More specific than a broad grouping, without being a specialised sub-type. ↩

RPC Derivatives/ ingredients (Type of Term)

A food made from a single commodity by a process that changes its nature, such as flour from grain or oil from seeds. ↩

Implicit facet descriptors *

Descriptors marked are not part of "Zoonoses hierarchy" and open in their own default hierarchy.

Facet descriptor

Implicit facet descriptors are characteristics a food already implies, so they are left out of its FoodEx2 code. For example, "smoked salmon" (A02KF) implies the facet descriptor "smoking" (F28.A07JV); because the term itself already conveys it, it is not added to the code. ↩

Narrower terms

These are child terms of the current term, "Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)".

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) has no narrower terms in Zoonoses hierarchy.

Sibling terms

Other terms sharing the same "Vitamins" parent term.

Record metadata

Status
APPROVED
Version
8.11
Valid from
16 Mar 2015, 23:19
Valid to
-
Last update
09 Aug 2017, 11:04