Vitamin Trader - Healthy Discounts on Quality Vitamins

Thousands of bottles of ascorbic acid are purchased each day under the misguided assumption that ascorbic acid is the same as vitamin C. The truth? Vitamin C is a complex nutrient of which ascorbic acid is only a part.

Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgi won a Nobel prize for his work isolating ascorbic acid from red pepper. His work was popularized but unfortunately an important aspect of his research was ignored. Szent-Gyorgi found that ascorbic acid was more biologically active when it was still a part of the red pepper. But scientists eager to find a market for "vitamin C" found that extracting ascorbic acid from red peppers is expensive. They figured out how to produce ascorbic acid at a far lesser cost in the laboratory. When they realized that ascorbic acid was better utilized when cofactors were present they went back to the laboratory and started to synthesize cofactors: bioflavonoids, mineral ascorbates, fat soluble (ascorbyl palmitate) ascorbic acid, and thus the vast array of "vitamin C products" you will find for sale.

These days, we return to Mother Nature to discover that enzymes, or perhaps energy patterns found in whole foods make a critical difference in the absorption of Vitamin C. Studies indicate that the body will absorb close to 100% of the vitamin C that occurs in a whole food whereas barely 10% of the "stripped down" ascorbic acid is absorbed.

Now Pure Planet has found a whole food source of vitamin C from Indian gooseberry, or amla berry. Herbacide and pesticide free berries are hand peeled to preserve the vitamin rich inner layer. Amla berries contribute to the natural alkaline balance of the body. The product, Amla-C Plus, is tableted with spirulina as the binder and no other binders, fillers, excipients, coloring agents, or tablet coating. While the "potency" may appear low, 27 mg. per tablet, 100% absorption or this whole food product compares favorably with an ascorbic acid product of 500 mg. from which only 10% of the vitamin C is absorbed!