Stop Taking Emergen-C, Check your labels, And read up on the ingredients. Your not ingesting what you think!
Ever wonder where that ascorbic acid the other vitamin companies use in their so called "natural formulas" comes from? Well here is the recipe. They start with corn syrup, the thick clear syrup that is nothing more than refined pure corn sugar. Then they follow these chemical steps.
Steps 1 (Starch Hydrolysis): Corn starch is broken down into simple sugar (D-Glucose) by the action of heat and enzymes.
Step 2 (Hydrogenation): D-Glucose is converted into D-Sorbitol.
Step 3 (Fermentation): D-Sorbitol is converted into L-Sorbose.
Step 4 (Acetonation): Yes that's right, they use acetone! L-Sorbose is combined with an acid at low temperatures.
Step 5 (Oxidation): The product is then oxidized with a catalyst, acidified, washed and dried forming L-Gluconic Acid.
Step 6 (Hydrolysis): L-Gluconic Acid is treated with hydrochloric acid forming crude ascorbic acid.
Step 7 (Recrystallization): The crude ascorbic acid is filtered, purified and milled into a fine crystalline powder.
To sum it up the process, they take one of the most genetically modified crops, sprayed with some of the worlds most toxic chemicals, soak it in a bath of corrosive acids and put it in your orange juice.
The truth is 90% of natural vitamin C oxidizes out of the juice within 1 minute of juicing. After that your drinking sugar water. Always drink fresh juice
CDC states anything over 500mg of Ascorbic Acid can cause intestinal distress.
Again, read up on what you are ingesting and aim to have a whole food diet. As soon as that skin is cut, whether fruits veggies or meat, it starts deteriorating.
Challenge: Find drinks that dont have Abscorbic Acid. you will find that probably 1:20 dont have it in the ingredients.
Keep making healthy options
Below is a link to some studies:
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/ascorbic_acid#section=U-S-Production
http://nwcnaturals.com/index.php/ascorbic-acid/