Vitamin C - The Missing Vitamin!

As a place to start, there are only 3 mammals on planet earth whose bodies do not manufacture the vitamin C they need. These are the guinea pig, the rhesus monkey, and humans.

The way all three must get the vitamin C they need is through what they eat and supplementing.

Most of the supplements you find in health-food shops, drug stores and supermarkets contain “vitamins” that are really man-made chemicals and “minerals” that are just ground up rocks or mineral salts.

These man-made vitamins and minerals are often labeled "Pharmaceutical Grade" or "USP" (which stands for United States Pharmacopeia).

For example, most of the “vitamin C” sold in the US is ascorbic acid. This is a man-made chemical found nowhere in nature. There is no ascorbic acid in an orange, tomato or broccoli, or any fresh fruit or vegetable.

Ascorbic acid is manufactured in chemical plants by adding chemicals to glucose (sugar), applying heat and pressure, which converts the glucose to ascorbic acid. Not exactly like drinking orange juice, is it?

Ascorbic acid, being a chemical, isn’t absorbed or utilized the way food is, and can often upset the stomach and digestive tract because it is an acid.

In fact, vitamin C in food is not acid - it is neutral!

The acid taste in oranges and other citrus fruits is caused by their citric acid content, not the vitamin C.

Some companies will combine ascorbic acid with other chemicals to “buffer” it (make it less acid). These buffered versions are the “sodium ascorbate” or “calcium ascorbate” forms of ascorbic acid.

The bottom line is that these forms of “vitamin C” as well as most other “vitamins” you find on store shelves, are man-made chemicals.

They are nothing like the true vitamins found in fresh fruits, vegetables and meat!

You may come across vitamins and minerals that are labeled “food based”. This is where USP vitamins and minerals have been mixed into a base of alfalfa or soy or some other food.

Mixing with food is done to try to increase the absorption of USP vitamins and minerals into the body. That is why you often see “take with food” on their labels.

For example, the more ascorbic acid you take the less your body absorbs. An intake of less than 20 mg has a 98% absorption rate.

When you increase your intake to 1,000 to 1,500 mg, the absorption rate drops to 50%.

And if you are taking 12 or more grams, the absorption of ascorbic acid drops to only 16%.

Occasionally these “food based” products will be labeled “organic”. This simply means that the alfalfa or soy the USP vitamins and minerals are mixed with were grown organically.

Today there are also several liquid forms of "vitamins" and "minerals". Once again, this is an attempt to increase the absorption of the USP chemical vitamins and minerals,

When you take "pharmaceutical grade" or "USP" vitamins and minerals you’re just pumping man-made chemicals and ground up mineral salts into your body.

The Difference

There is a world of difference between Foodform® Vitamin C and ascorbic acid!

In contrast, Foodform® Vitamin C contains no ascorbic acid and the body knows how to absorb and use it.

Comparison studies showed that after 12 hours there remained 25 times more Foodform® Vitamin C in the blood stream than ascorbic acid.

In fact, three Foodform® Vitamin C tablets contain almost as much vitamin C as a half-gallon of fresh squeezed orange juice!

The problem for people who would like to supplement their vitamin C using orange juice is that orange juice contains more sugar than Coca-Cola!

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