Preface

Chapter 7 **Encapsulation of Vitamin C into β‐Cyclodextrin for Advanced**

Subhadeep Saha and Mahendra Nath Roy

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**VI** Contents

This book has been devised to offer an overview of currently hot topics related to vitamin C, which will be very important to people who are interested in biochemistry and biology.

Although vitamin C has been discovered long ago, research into vitamin C still progresses rapidly. Vitamin C is a simple molecule with a powerful effect. We decided to introduce this book to highlight the new advances and research related to this very important vitamin.

The authors were selected according to their prospective contribution to the scientific field. Authors were asked to submit a chapter related to the topic. All submitted chapters were subjected to a referring procedure including plagiarism check.

The chapters of this book include basic information about vitamin C function, sources, and analysis. Radioprotective and antioxidant effect of vitamin C is also considered in this book. Also, the anticarcinogenic effect of vitamin C is introduced. Furthermore, we considered the encapsulation technique used in vitamin C preparation. Finally, recent advances in vitamin C transporter are illustrated.

We hope that the book's readers will find interesting topics that will greatly help support the scientific research on this powerful vitamin.

> **Amal H. Hamza** King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

**Section 1**

**What is Vitamin C**
