Is this product synthesized vitamin C, or natural synthesized vitamin C? Please advise. Thank you.
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As far as the label says it is synthesized as it do not boost that it is natural vitamin C
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No, it is not. But what I love about Garden of Life products; they are Whole foods not synthetic like most vitamins. They are made from real foods. This is VITAMIN D raw. tHIS is extremely important especially if you live in the colder regions.
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Hello,After emailing the Swanson companies customer service, I found that the vitamin C powder that you were asking about in fact is not non-GMO free, I am always looking for the heathiest products and I personaly feel that this is a good product and I take it daily.Mark
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Hi wmi,Our supplier is the only European manufacturer of vitamin C in the world and confirms that our vitamin C is free from GMOs with every batch. Having an agreement set in place with Non-GMO Project would significantly increase our costs, and it's important for us to maintain our competitive pricing for our valued customers. This is why we state that our vitamin C is non-GMO, but cannot place the logo on our label without an official third party certifier. Hope this helps answer your question, and if you have any other questions you can reach us by responding to this comment thread or by email at amazon@vivalabs.com.Besa BerberiRegistered NutritionistViva Labs Hi wmi,Our supplier is the only European manufacturer of vitamin C in the world and confirms that our vitamin C is free from GMOs with every batch. Having an agreement set in place with Non-GMO Project would significantly increase our costs, and it's important for us to maintain our competitive pricing for our valued customers. This is why we state that our vitamin C is non-GMO, but cannot place the logo on our label without an official third party certifier. Hope this helps answer your question, and if you have any other questions you can reach us by responding to this comment... » Read More Hi wmi,Our supplier is the only European manufacturer of vitamin C in the world and confirms that our vitamin C is free from GMOs with every batch. Having an agreement set in place with Non-GMO Project would significantly increase our costs, and it's important for us to maintain our competitive pricing for our valued customers. This is why we state that our vitamin C is non-GMO, but cannot place the logo on our label without an official third party certifier. Hope this helps answer your question, and if you have any other questions you can reach us by responding to this comment thread or by email at amazon@vivalabs.com.Besa BerberiRegistered NutritionistViva Labs « Show Less
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I put on vitamin C immediately after...feels so nice! Then about an hour later I use Aveeno.
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The bottle does not provide any information. I will be using a different multivitamin after this bottle is empty because the vitamin C is in an incomplete form. The replacement is from Nutrigold. You may want to look into them. nutrigold.com
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That's a good question and also one that makes this product's claims hard to believe. I think commercially B12 only comes from a process of industrial bacterial biosynthesis which I don't think can be 100% natural. Wonder if this still means this product is vegan or natural as they claim.This is exactly the point of my review I wrote for this supplement a few weeks ago.
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This question must be answered carefully as people often mis-understand what the word "Natural" means. Naturally fermented means that traditional enzymes or organisms were used to ferment the corn and precipitate out the ascorbic acid. This is considered natural in the market. However, many sources of information on the internet claim that this is "not natural" because it is not derived from a common source of Vitamin C fruit like an orange. (Corn is a fruit by the way). Synthetic Vitamin C would be Vitamin C produced in a lab by mixing chemicals together to produce the chemical chain that makes up Ascorbic Acid/Vitamin C. This is not considered Natural and is typically designated as D-Ascorbic Acid as opposed to L-Ascorbic Acid.
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It's supposed to be 99.8% pure vitamin C. I add it to my moisturizer everyday which, of course, is a form of dilution.
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That's disturbing info about natural melatonin. But of the 3 brands I have onhand here (Now, Natrol, and Natural Factors), none state what the sources are, or whether they're natural or synthetic.
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I'm just going to copy and paste what I said in the 1st question because they're kind of similar. The Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) of Vitamin C based on a 2000 calorie diet is 60mg. So 1180% of that would be 708mg per tsp I believe? I bought from another company, where it says the Vitamin C is 1200% of RDI, and it says 720mg per tsp so yeah, it should be about 708mg/tsp
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Can Brian Lindsay or the company representatives verify the percentage of vitamin C please? I agree with K. Frenden that it is an important piece of information but no where on the bottles or the company website provide this information. Thank you.
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I just spoke with Tom at Life Extension. He didn't say corn derived. He said it was synthetically derived. I tried a "natto" derived supplement and experienced terrible stomach upset. Even though it's synthetically derived, I consider it the lesser of two evils.
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REAL vitamin C from organic fruits can be found in the Alive brand of powdered vitamin C. The ascorbic acid vitamin C in these and other capsules and pills is made from genetically modified corn.
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Here is the information I was able to get from the NOW FOODS website: "For example, pure natural vitamin C is produced from corn by only five production facilities in the world. None are in the United States, where GMO corn is all too common. All are from Europe and the Far East, situated in countries that (to date) have restrictions that do not allow GMO food corn to be grown there. Our producers have given us statements to confirm that their corn sources are non-GMO, but the documentation doesn't extend back to the farm level. Testing for GMOs has not found that any is detectable in vitamin C. We have done all that is currently possible to assure that our vitamin C is non-GMO, and continue to monitor the situation to ensure this is maintained in the future." Hope that helps :-)
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Hi Mr R.,It is in the form of L-ascorbic acid which is naturally occurring in food sources, unlike D-ascorbic acid which must be chemically synthesized. Hope this helps answer your question, and if you have any other questions you can reach us by responding to this comment thread or by email at amazon@vivalabs.com.BesaRegistered NutritionistViva Labs
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When it comes to healthiness of Vitamin C, what matters is purity: whether it is made in the USA and the reputation of the manufacturer. Foreign-made chemicals can have ANYTHING in them, scary. GMO-free is irrelevant when you're talking about a pure chemical derived from a food source. Corn could have petunia genes or buffalo genes or whatever, but the resulting ascorbic acid is just a simple chemical with no leftover genetic material.