1 May 2018

Vitamin C for a cold - fact or old wives' tale?

From Afternoons, 1:39 pm on 1 May 2018

What do you do when you get a cold? Take lots of vitamin C? Biochemist and research scientist Dr Frances-Rose Schumacher is science correspondent for The Wireless. She looks into the science of whether those feijoas are actually helping stop your cold in its tracks.

She's written an article on her findings.

Feijoas

Feijoas Photo: Public Domain

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