Dear Vitamin C Aficionados: This article isn't about whether you should take the stuff [1]. Instead, it raises some questions about what you think you're taking vs. what you're really taking.
If some of you find the following disquieting, I apologize in advance. But (A) it is all true; (B) it's information your vitamin shops don't want you to have; and (C) it will possibly screw with your head a little, in an ironic sort of way. Did you ever wonder where your vitamin C comes from? Perhaps, on some level, you envision a bunch of flaxen-haired beauties with flowers in their hair, blithely frolicking through lush orange groves, lovingly selecting only the finest fruit, which will later be hand-squeezed to ensure that you will be getting nothing short of nature's miracle itself? Nope.
Vitamin C doesn't come from flaxen-haired beauties. Keep reading. You may need to adjust your expectations somewhat.
Here is where your vitamin C really comes from. The Novachem Import and Export Company, Wuhan, China bears a striking resemblance to the New Jersey Turnpike near Bayonne, NJ. Or do I have them backwards? Photo: Picryl But at least it looks idyllic inside: Image: Wikimedia Commons Ninety percent of the vitamin C that is consumed in the U.
S. is manufactured in China. And it sure doesn't come from oranges.
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