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Science Fair Project Ideas - Vitamin C

Science Fair Projects for Middle and High School

By Denise Witmer, About.com

Vitamin C is an antioxidant. It can prevent cell damage and other changes that oxygen causes. Linus Pauling winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 believed in treating the common cold with large doses of vitamin C.

Project Ideas:

  1. What does vitamin C do for the body?
  2. What a normal levels? Can the body have too much?
  3. Measure different levels of vitamin C in different fruits.

Link Resources to Complete the Science Fair Project

  1. Are You Getting Enough Vitamin C?
  2. Vitamin C
  3. How Vitamin C Works

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