Stabilized particulate vitamin c composition

Claim 1

A STABLE, VITAMIN C ACTIVE COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF FREE-FLOWING, NON-AGGLOMERATING, DISCRETE PARTICLES COMPRISING A VITAMIN C ACTIVE SUBSTANCE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ASCORBIC ACID, ISOASCORBIC ACID, A SALT OF ASCORBIC ACID EITH A MEDICINALLY ACCEPTABLE BASE, A SALT OF ISOACORBIC ACID WITH A MEDICINALLY ACCEPTABLE BASE, AN ESTER OF ASCORBIC ACID WITH AN ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL CONTAINING FROM ONE TO SEVENTEEN CARBON ATOMS AND AN ESTER OF ISOASCORBIC ACID WITH AN ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL CONTAINING FROM ONE TO SEVENTEEN CARBON ATOMS, EACH INDIVIDUAL DISCRETE PARTICLE HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM COATING CONSISTING OF AN ORGANIC POLYSILOXANE OBTAINED BY THE IN SITU POYLMERIZATION ON EACH DISCRETE PARTICLE, SAID PARTICLES BEING MAINTAINED PHYSICALLY SEPARATE, OF A SOLUTION CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 10 PERCENT BY WEIGHT TO ABOUT 50 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF A SILOXANE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF METHYL SILOXANE AND PHENYL SILOXANE IN AN INERT, VOLATILE ORGANIC SOLVENT AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT ROOM TEMPERATURE TO ABOUT 150*C, SAID COATING COMPRISING FROM ABOUT 1 PERCENT BY WEIGHT TO ABOUT 20 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF SAID COMPOSITION.