Vitamin C is one of those nutrients where the natural version definitely beats out the synthetic one (and it’s not alone, natural nutrients in general are often better than synthetic ones), and since you’re on this page you may have already figured that out!
They may be identical on paper when looking at just the ascorbic acid specifically, but there’s a lot more to vitamin C found naturally in foods than just ascorbic acid, and the body can respond a bit differently to the two of them.
BUT, that’s (why it’s better) not the main topic of this article, so let’s just focus here on the best supplements/products for natural vitamin C instead!
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- Best Natural Vitamin C Supplements (Organic, Whole Food, Raw)
- Recap
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Best Natural Vitamin C Supplements (Organic, Whole Food, Raw)
And on top of the list we have my favorite, and a fairly affordable way to get some extra natural whole food vitamin C to supplement your diet with.. namely:
Sunfood Tangy Camu Camu Powder
Camu camu is one of the very richest foods in vitamin C (it has more than 30 times that of oranges) and since it’s simply a whole food in powder form, it’s about equal to just eating real foods high in vitamin C.
Which is ideal, and the best way to get it, of course!
And again since it’s so high in it, you won’t need to eat much at all of it.
This camu camu powder is from a reputable brand and contains 328 milligrams of vitamin C per teaspoon, which is already 365% of the RDI (that’s not to say the the RDI is the right intake for optimal health when it comes to vitamin C, but rather just the intake to effectively prevent an outright deficiency of it).
And thus, as for the dosage, the packaging says 1 teaspoon daily which is a good and for most probably sufficient dosage unless you’re trying to correct a deficiency, but I’d say anywhere from a fourth to two teaspoons is fair game for dosage and that you can experiment a bit with this and use your intuition to better know if and how much camu camu powder works best for you personally.
And as for the cost?
This one runs at about $16 for 3,5 oz or 100 grams, which comes down to $24 monthly or 80 cents per day at a dosage of a teaspoon a day, but again since you may not need that much extra natural vitamin C, especially if you’re already eating a very healthy diet and taking the right supplements (a good multi is among them and you’ll get some additional vitamin C from that as well, albeit generally not in its best, natural form), you could again fairly easily get away with just half or a fourth of that dosage, taking the respective cost down to either $12 monthly/40 cents per day or as low as $6 monthly or just 20 cents a day.
For comparison’s sake, this one’s about $2,5 per gram of actual vitamin C.
You can get it from All Star Health (great at supplements) here!
And next on this very short list (because there aren’t actually that many great while still decently affordable whole food vitamin C supplements), we have:
Garden Of Life Vitamin Code – Raw Vitamin C Capsules
As the name implies this one comes in capsules as opposed to powder which can be a bit more convenient to take, also from a reputable brand.
It’s whole food vitamin C with a blend of lots of different organic fruits and vegetables.
This one’s probably even better than the above powdered one, simply because when you do the math it’s only about $0,8 per gram of vitamin C which is a third of the cost for how much vitamin C you’re getting.
It certainly looks even better on paper, and the only reason I won’t call it my favorite of the two is because I haven’t personally tried this one out yet (not taking a separate vitamin C supplement at the moment) and I also like that the camu camu powder is just one ingredient.
Why that matters is because, although most people and thus you included are unlikely to receive any negative reactions to any of these, it’s still more likely to happen with the one with a lot of different ingredients, which is an unnecessary risk to take if it’s just the vitamin C you’re after.
But.. a case can be made for the multi-ingredient one being better as well, for overall health if nothing else, simply because it contributes to a more varied, thus healthier diet and gives a lot of different nutrients and compounds that can be beneficial for you in various ways.
Either way, if I were to buy a new natural vitamin C supplement today, it would be this one rather simply because of the large cost discrepancy and because of the added nutritional variety, and if it agreed with me, it’d be my new favorite for sure, so, you may want to go with this one as well :). (If you were to have a reaction, you could just in hindsight switch to camu camu instead).
Either way, this one comes in 250 mg vitamin C per capsule and the recommendations on the bottle are 2 capsules per day (500 mg). I’d say that that’s a good dosage, but that just one capsule or even half of one if you open them can suffice as well, and is up to you to experiment with and ultimately decide.
At $23 for 120 capsules, 2 caps per day of this one will cost you about $11,5 per month (500 mg is a pretty decent dose though) or 40 cents per day, and if you choose to take half or a forth of the dosage it’ll be $5,8/month and 20 cents/day or $3/month and 10 cents/ day respectively.
Definitely go for this supplement and experiment with the lower ranges for it if budget’s an issue for you.
It also comes in a 60 caps version which gets more expensive per gram or dosage, but as a lesser initial investment instead (you can swap between the two on the product page).
And it can be found here, also on Allstarhealth.com.
Alright, and with all that said, let’s recap:
Recap
- Natural vitamin C (organic/raw/from whole foods) is better than its synthetic counterpart.
- There are great all natural supplements for this type of vitamin C.
- The best products for it are Garden Of Life Vitamin Code – Raw Vitamin C and Sunfood Tangy Camu Camu Powder, most likely in that order.
Enjoy your natural vitamin C guys,
/Emil
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