3 Tips: 
How to Determine Natural Vitamin C supplements from Synthetic Vitamin C supplements?

People well know about the advantages of a Natural and Organic product versus synthetic ones. They know that the nature could not be mimicked perfectly regarding to the shortage of human knowledge and complexity of the nature!

People trend on natural product is noticed by supplements manufacturers and so, some times you can find examples of artificial or synthetic products pretending to be Natural!

It is enough to take a look at the Vitamins shelf in the pharmacies. Most of the labels on Vitamin C products are showing an Orange!
Yes! Orange is the symbol of Vitamin C, but there is not any Orange Vitamin C in most of those products!
So, How can you determine real Natural products from synthetic ones?

1) Read the Product Ingredients on the label:
Fortunately, FDA and Health Canada have ruled supplements manufacturers to write the ingredients on the product label.
Label is what you need to find out the products source.
If you found ingredients as follows, then be sure that the product is a Synthetic Vitamin C supplements:

Vitamin C
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic acid)
Vitamin C (as Sodium ascorbate)
Vitamin C (as Calcium ascorbate)
and any other ascorbate salts

But on the label of Natural Vitamin C supplements you will find the following ingredients:

Vitamin C from Acerola
Vitamin C from berries
Vitamin C from Camu camu
Vitamin C from Rose hip
and Vitamin C from other natural sources. 

Some manufacturers use a mixture of Natural and Synthetic Vitamin C, and you can see both of the Vitamin C sources on the label. For example, a Vitamin C supplement with Rose hip, means that it is made of synthetic Vitamin C plus a small percentage of Rose hip as a natural source of Vitamin C!

Be advised: Natural Vitamin C supplements should provide you with 100% natural Vitamin C, not a mix!

2) Vitamin C content:
You may think that the Vitamin C content of Natural Vitamin C supplements should be more than synthetic ones, but it is not correct!
The Vitamin C content of Natural supplements is Less than synthetic Vitamin C products! Because the Vitamin C content of natural sources is low. The highest content of Vitamin C in the nature is for Camu camu (2800 mg/100 g) and Acerola (1680 mg/100 g) in comparison with Orange (53 mg/ 100 g).
Regarding to the limitation of the size of the capsules, the maximum Vitamin C content in a 100% natural supplement is about 180 mg (NOAH Vitamin C).
But, in the case of synthetic Vitamin C, the purity of Vitamin C is about 99%! It means that each capsule could contain more than 500 mg of Vitamin C.

So, If there was high amounts (250 mg, 500 mg, 1000 mg, ...) of Vitamin C in each capsule or sachet, it means that the main part of that product is made of Synthetic Vitamin C!

3) Price!  
Right guess! The price of Natural Vitamin C is too much more than synthetic Vitamin C!
The price of a synthetic, made in China Vitamin C with a purity of 99% is about 3 $ per kilogram (0.3 cent/1000 mg)! In the other hand, the price of the natural sources of Vitamin C (25%) is about 85$ per kilogram (8.5 cents/1000 mg). It means that the price of Natural Vitamin C is 100 times more expensive than synthetic Vitamin C (with the same purity).

And so, the price of Natural Vitamin C supplements is higher than synthetic supplements.




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