Vitamin C: Daily Value and top food sources

Daily Value: 90 mg (FDA, adults and children 4+)

Ranked by how much Vitamin C a typical portion provides, rather than per 100 g. Lists built per 100 g fill up with dried herbs and fortified bars, and nobody eats 100 g of thyme. Portions are the primary household measure USDA records for each food. From the 1000 foods in Bioma Learn. 145 foods are excluded from this ranking: USDA records no household measure for them (we will not call 100 g a portion), or it reports a value so high for one portion that we treat it as a data error, or the food is a dry uncooked staple measured before cooking.

Top sources of Vitamin C, per typical portion

Share of the Daily Value (90 mg) in one portion. Full amounts in the table below.

Food	Portion	Amount	% DV
Guavas, common, raw	1 cup (165 g)	376.7 mg	419%
Guava sauce, cooked	1 cup (238 g)	348.4 mg	387%
Grapefruit juice, white, frozen concentrate, unsweetened	1 can (6 fl oz) (207 g)	248 mg	276%
Apple juice, grape and pear blend, and calcium	8 fl oz (250 g)	126.8 mg	141%
Lemons, raw, without peel	1 cup, sections (212 g)	112.4 mg	125%
Acai berry drink, fortified	8 fl oz (266 g)	112 mg	124%
Oranges, raw, navels	1.0 cup sections no membranes (165 g)	97.5 mg	108%
Lemon juice, raw	1 cup (244 g)	94.4 mg	105%
Grapefruit juice, white, raw	1 cup (247 g)	93.9 mg	104%
Broccoli, frozen, chopped	1 cup (156 g)	88 mg	98%
Grapefruit, sections, canned, juice pack	1 cup (249 g)	84.4 mg	94%
Grapefruit, raw, pink and red and white, all areas	1 cup sections, with juice (230 g)	79.1 mg	88%
Apricot nectar, canned	1 cup (266 g)	79 mg	88%
Grapefruit, raw, white, all areas	1 cup sections, with juice (230 g)	76.6 mg	85%
Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked	1 cup (184 g)	73.8 mg	82%
Lime juice, raw	1 cup (242 g)	72.6 mg	81%
Grapefruit, raw, pink and red, all areas	1 cup sections, with juice (230 g)	71.8 mg	80%
Guava nectar, with sucralose, canned	11.3 fl oz (335 g)	71.4 mg	79%
Brussels sprouts, frozen, cooked, boiled	1 cup (155 g)	70.8 mg	79%
Apple and grape blend juice	8 fl oz (250 g)	70.5 mg	78%
Brussels sprouts, frozen	0.33 package (10 oz) (95 g)	70.4 mg	78%
Broccoli, raw	1.0 cup chopped (76 g)	69.4 mg	77%
Cauliflower, green, cooked, no salt added	0.2 head (90 g)	65.3 mg	73%
Breadfruit, raw	1 cup (220 g)	63.8 mg	71%
Grape juice, canned or bottled, unsweetened, and calcium	1 cup (253 g)	63.2 mg	70%

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