If I pee on the floor will the Vitamin C in my urine be devoured by bacteria?

[Mr Rayon]

Does anyone know?

 

Or will it all go to waste?

 

Do bacteria bother eating the vitamin C which is in your urine and on the floor?

[Phi for All]

Interactions between ascorbic acid and bacteria.

 

Vitamin C kills bacteria. You have some bacteria in your urine anyway, probably less if you get a lot of vitamin C naturally. And the effect isn't diluted in your toilet, so you don't need to pee on the floor.

[John Cuthber]

Interactions between ascorbic acid and bacteria.

 

Vitamin C kills bacteria. You have some bacteria in your urine anyway, probably less if you get a lot of vitamin C naturally. And the effect isn't diluted in your toilet, so you don't need to pee on the floor.

If vitamin C killed bacteria then fruit wouldn't be attacked by bacteria.

[Strange]

Why is this in Speculations, and not Biology?

[John Cuthber]

Why is someone talking about peeing on the floor?

Is this a linguistics issue?

[Strange]

Or one of those dreams where you ... Oh, just me then.

[CharonY]

Under oxic conditions ascorbate (vitamin C) is oxidized to 2,3-dioxo-L-gulonate. That can be further degraded to D-xylulose 5-phosphate (uncer anoxic conditions the pathway is slightly altered but ends with the same product). The best studied bacteria known to utilize ascorbate include Escherichia and Klebsiella.