RE: ... ascorbic acid

[Guest guest]

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Well, " good kind " is subjective I guess, lol. Your C is buffered which means

it is less acidic and easier for some to tolerate. Calcium Ascorbate is a

form of ascorbic C combined with calcium carbonate. Overall, as far as

ascorbic acid products go, I think that is a pretty good one. I personally

prefer powdered form, non-synthetic Vitamin C versus synthetic ascorbic

acid. The thing is, we don't know the source of most brands (corn, berries,

whatever) because likely the label doesn't tell you. Which is why I

recommend if you do use ascorbic acid, get one that tells you the source

that they use to get the ascorbic acid. Your brand, however, looks like a

better form of ascorbic acid since the label says it contains " no corn " and

they get bioflavonoids from lemon and citrus.

If you have no problems with allergies or digestive issues, then I would say

it is probably a good one for you.

In the past, I used acerola and rose hips sources with success. The one I am

ordering that I sent to is this:

http://drbenkim.com/natural-vitamin-c-benefits.htm It is a pretty

inexpensive one for a powdered, non-synthetic source (about the same price

as my Twinlab's powder) and that high of a quantity.

Cheri

Re: Re: Allergic Reactions..real Vitamin C versus

ascorbic acid

OK, dumb question here.

My vitamin c is Natrol Ester C. It says it is:

Vitamin C (as Calcium Ascorbate++) 500mg

Calcium (as Calcium Ascorbate ++) 50mg

Is this the good kind?

.

[Guest guest]

Wow. I have been reading the link you sent on that company that distributes

the bulk of US Vitamin C ascorbic acid and found this:

" Vitamin price fixing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann-La_Roche

Stanley , Roche's World Product Manager in Basel, contacted the

European Economic Community in 1973 with evidence that Roche had been

breaking antitrust laws, engaging in price fixing and market sharing with

its competitors. Roche was fined accordingly, but a bungle on the part of

the EEC allowed the company to discover that it was who had blown the

whistle. He was arrested for unauthorised disclosure - an offence under

Swiss law - and imprisoned. His wife, having learnt that he might face

decades in jail, committed suicide. was released soon after but

arrested again more than once before eventually fleeing to Britain, where he

wrote a book about the affair, Roche Versus (London, 1984, ISBN

022402180X).

In 1999, Roche was the worldwide market leader in vitamins, with a market

share of 40%. Between 1990 and 1999, the company participated in an illegal

price fixing cartel for vitamins, which also included BASF and Rhone-Poulenc

SA. In 1999, Roche pleaded guilty in the United States and paid a US$500

million fine, then the largest fine ever secured in the U.S. The European

Commission fined Roche ?462 million for the same infraction in 2001, also a

record fine at the time.

Roche sold its vitamin business in late 2002 to the Dutch group DSM. "

I guess they have had a vested interest in saying the two are the same.

Also, it looks like they sold off their vitamin division in 2002 to of all

things, a CHEMICAL company DSM with a history of coal mining. Egad!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM_%28company%29

Definitely not where I want to get my supplements.

Cheri

Re: ... ascorbic acid

I copied this from:

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=articles/articleindex.p\

hp

This website cuts thru the crap. Pouring cornstarch and sulphuric acid

into a vat and selling the result as " Vitamin C " is not providing a

viable source of nutrition. Get the real stuff. Rose hips, acerola

cherries, kiwi fruit, oranges, ect. Look for food sources whenever

possible.

Here's part the article:

WHOLE VS. FRACTIONATED

OK, natural vs. synthetic. Let's start with Vitamin C. Most sources

equate vitamin C with ascorbic acid, as though they were the same thing.

They're not. Ascorbic acid is an isolate, a fraction, a distillate of

naturally occurring vitamin C. In addition to ascorbic acid, vitamin C

must include rutin, bioflavonoids, Factor K, Factor J, Factor P,

Tyrosinase, Ascorbinogen, and other components as shown in the figure

below:

_____________________A s c o r b i c A c i d______________

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