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If I pee on the floor will the Vitamin C in my urine be devoured by bacteria?


Mr Rayon

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Interactions between ascorbic acid and bacteria.

 

Vitamin C kills bacteria. You have some bacteria in your urine anyway, probably less if you get a lot of vitamin C naturally. And the effect isn't diluted in your toilet, so you don't need to pee on the floor.

If vitamin C killed bacteria then fruit wouldn't be attacked by bacteria.

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Under oxic conditions ascorbate (vitamin C) is oxidized to 2,3-dioxo-L-gulonate. That can be further degraded to D-xylulose 5-phosphate (uncer anoxic conditions the pathway is slightly altered but ends with the same product). The best studied bacteria known to utilize ascorbate include Escherichia and Klebsiella.

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