Vitamin C needs of our bodies Cats, dogs, elephants and many other animals can make their own vitamin C in their bodies from glucose. Humans haven’t got or have lost the enzymes required for the manufacture and need to get it from the foods. We do have the gene used by animals to make vitamin C from glucose called GULOP, but we do not have the mechanism in our DNA to make it. Our bodies need 90 milligrams of vitamin C for men and 75 milligrams for women. Some of the foods we eat have sufficient vitamin C for our daily requirement. Our hot chillies we enjoy in our curries have over 100 mg of vitamin C in half a cup, and the hotness increases your metabolic rate. To slim you must eat plenty of red chillies in your curries. In Chinese cuisine they use lot of cut red ...