How is whole-food vitamin C different from synthetic vitamin C?
In nature, vitamins do not exist as single components that act in isolation. Vitamins are composed of numerous cofactors that work together to nourish the body and produce health benefits. Vitamins that occur naturally in whole foods include all these essential cofactors. However, the majority of vitamins on the market today are synthetic vitamins, which are only isolated portions of the vitamins. Vitamin C is a good example—most vitamin C supplements contain only ascorbic acid, which is only one component of the entire vitamin C complex. The body has to collect all of the compounds of the full vitamin C complex from its tissues in order to use isolated ascorbic acid. If your body cannot supply the other components from its reserves, it cannot utilize and derive any benefit from ascorbic acid. Pure Radiance C is an organic 100% natural, whole-food source of vitamin C. In addition to vitamin C–rich camu camu and acerola berries, it contains a proprietary blend of organic and wild berrie
