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Citric Acid Is Actually Made From GMO Black Mold

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Mass produced citric acid and ascorbic acid or vitamin C, have had hidden GMO ingredients since the early 1900s, as the black mold Aspergillus niger has been used to ferment starches to derive citric acid.

Citric acid is often praised for its ability to to bring out the pucker-inducing and tangy tastes in popular foods. It is increasingly celebrated for helping to bring a balance of “all five flavors” to countless restaurant dishes and prepackaged processed foods – indispensable to even celebrity and TV contestant chefs.

What they don’t tell you is that citric acid is known to cause physical symptoms in people that are rather unpleasant. Those who experience allergic reactions and who have food intolerance’s to citric acid have symptoms such as stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, cramping and hives.

Food manufacturers leave out that citric acid is derived from genetically modified black mold grown on GMO corn syrup. The USDA and the FDA still allow it to be used despite it being a known hidden GMO. Companies continuously capitalize on an ignorance based market.

Citric acid and ascorbic acid are both known accomplices to the creation of benzene, a human carcinogen, inside food and drink products alongside sodium benzoate. Studies proved that the creation of benzene could happen right inside the drink containers, while in transport, on store shelves or waiting for consumption in consumers’ homes. However, the FDA still allows them to continue using this dangerous mixture of ingredients, despite clear data on the matter.

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Citric acid is found in virtually all manufactured foods because it’s a flavor enhancer and preservative. It is even found in organic foods, which is why it is so important to read the ingredients in the products you buy and be knowledgeable about how the ingredients are created.

Many people are under the impression that the citric acid in today’s food come from fruit. Citric acid does in fact occur naturally in citrus fruits like lemons, oranges, grapefruits in significant quantities, it is even present in most living things. But the industry would find it simply too costly to derive their preservative ingredient that way.

Are you still consuming these dangerous ingredients? And if you are is knowing how it’s made and what effects it could have on you enough to bring about a change and deter you from indulging? I personally am shocked with this insight and will be a lot more picky when I am at the store shopping!

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Alesia
Alesia
5 years ago

Hello Hailey!
Yes! I am willing to refrain from indulging. This information is very enlightening! I am shocked to learn HOW citric acid/ascorbic acid is created. It’s actually sickening to discover that its made from mold grown on GMO corn of all things! Citric acid/ascorbic acid is as ubiquitous as its source. Further incentive to continue on my whole food, plant based way of eating. Thanks for bringing this information to light!

Alesia

Kaleb
Kaleb
4 years ago

The only thing in this article is a series of baseless assertions without anything to back them up and without any evidence even remotely in favor of them by any credible source. Let’s use Hitchen’s Razor, that which can be presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Also lets use Occam’s Razor, it requires far more assumptions to believe that the entire scientific community, as well as real nutritionists, and government organizations are all lying about citric acid, rather than knowing that it comes from citrus fruits. This is utterly disingenuous and requires a large amount of mental acrobatics… Read more »

Phock Hue
Phock Hue
2 years ago
Reply to  Kaleb

Dude Its really good to do your own research and I encourage it… including when you decide to comment like a 3rd grader and make an a** out of your self before looking it up yourself.

Here, i’ll spoon feed you: aspergillus-niger is a black fungus
aspergillus-niger is used to make all kinds of things because of their efficient ability to turn all kinds of sugars into a waste/product called Ascorbic acid.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/aspergillus-niger

Here is the FDA article on Sec. 173.280 Solvent extraction process for citric acid. and aspergillus-niger and the FDA allowances.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=173.280

Donteatpoison
Donteatpoison
3 years ago

Use camu powder for vitamin C.