Vitamin C is an important nutrient found in citrus fruits as well as other fruits and vegetables. But the vitamin C you get in vitamin pills is a chemical made from corn syrup, not fruits or vegetables. This is why we only use foods and not these manmade compounds to provide vitamin C. Foods such as acerola and camu are high in vitamin C and NutriPlex Formulas’ FlavoC and CaroC, and our Camu Camu supplement from the Amazon are whole foods without the chemical known as ascorbic acid-vitamin C. But what’s worse is that mercury, one of the deadliest substances known to man, has turned up in corn syrup.

This is a good reason, as well as the fact that vitamin C pills made from corn syrup are not natural, to switch to our whole food supplements. In the meantime, you also have to be on the lookout for the thousands of foods containing high fructose corn syrup, fifty percent of which may contain mercury!

In a new study published Monday in the scientific journal Environmental Health, mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup. The news is disturbing given that this ingredient is present in a large portion of processed American foods. According to David Wallinga, M.D., co-author of the study, “Given how much high fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the FDA to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply.” A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where high fructose corn syrup is the first or second highest labeled ingredient-including products by Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smucker’s.1

“The bad news is that nobody knows whether or not their soda or snack food contains HFCS made from ingredients like caustic soda contaminated with mercury,” said Dr. Wallinga. “The good news is that mercury-free HFCS ingredients exist. Food companies just need a good push to only use those ingredients.”2
Sources:

1. Mercury Found In Nearly Half of All Corn Syrup, Organic Bytes, Jan 09
2. Much High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated With Mercury, New Study Finds, Organic Consumers Association, Jan 09

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