Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark have found that a deficiency in vitamin C can interfere with brain development in newborns.
According to the study published in the September issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, newborns who lack vitamin C are less developed mentally.
Danish researchers based these findings on studies performed in newborn animals. They found that animals that lacked the vitamin had 30% less neurons in the hippocampus, the region of the brain involved in long-term and spatial memory, compared to control animals.