MikeMartial said:
From various sources:
"Vitamin C also known as, ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, the antiscorbutic vitamin, L-xyloascorbic acid and L-threo-hex-2-uronic acidy-lactone, is a much talked about vitamin..."
"Ascorbic acid is an organic acid with antioxidant properties. The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid is commonly known as vitamin C..."
And a damn fine site on ascorbate
here.
Laugh away
Each are still a synthetic compound, and Not naturally occuring Vitamin C, and not the same in their entirety, and you named what 4 compoounds, each are not the same, example, one you named is found in mineral salts, and tends to be easier on gastrointestinal pain, if it is the SAME compound, please explain why that is...
"Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions whose action is dependent upon a number of variables within the biological terrain. Vitamin activity only takes place when all conditions are met within that environment, and when all co-factors and components of the entire vitamin complex are present and working together. Vitamin activity is even more than the sum of all those parts; it also involves timing.
Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial commercial forms, like ascorbic acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins, and to call them such is inaccurate"
"A vitamin is
" a working process consisting of the nutrient, enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, and trace minerals activators."
- Royal Lee "What Is a Vitamin?" Applied Trophology "
maybe this..
www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ 2003/11/17/ascorbic_acid_is_not_vitamin_c.htm - 111k
or this...
Those said...
There have been two studies saying the composition of synthetic and naturally occurring ascorbic acid, yet each were gov.'t funded, being that the gov.'t has such high involvement with pharmaceuitcal companies in the US, and synthetic "Vitamin C" is found in nearly everything nowadays, the integrity of the studies must be called into question, at least IMO, I will admit...
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