Without carbs in your diet, your Vitamin C needs drop massively.

Glucose in your blood competes with Vitamin C for cell entry.

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If I eat hot dogs or sausage with a bit of added dextrose, does that wipe out my Vitamin C ?

Nope

Are they analogs competing for the same cell receptors?

They are structurally similar molecules and use the same GLUT4 transporter to enter the cell.

Well then, that's a critical piece of information to know. I had no idea. I would have thought I'd have run across that in biochem or cell biology classes but, no. Never mentioned.