Not All Vitamin C is Created Equal: AA-2βG, a Powerful Vitamin C Analogue From Goji Berries Outperforms Its Cousin L-Ascorbic Acid and Teaches Scientists "Nature Still Knows Best!"
Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid probably is the best known of all anti-oxidants; and the marketing departments of the food companies know that and how to make use of its popularity with slogans like "Extra rich in vitamin C", "Extra Vitamin C", etc. Back in the days, when food was still exclusively nourishing and nobody expected it to heal the ailments it, or other food was causing, ascorbic acid was mostly added to products to extend their shelf-life (this is still common practice, btw.). Today, however, the highly processed foodstuff the unhealthy majority of the fast food society, we have become, is consuming on a daily basis contains vitamin C to... well, I guess to be more marketable . After all , scientific evidence for the purported beneficial effects of vitamin C in isolation, i.e. outside of the natural nutrient mix of real food (vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, etc.) is scarce and a recent study ( Zh...