Camu Camu Berry Powder Vitamin C Supplement available at Rhio's Raw Energy

Camu C™
Camu Camu Berry Powder
An Excellent Source of Vitamin C
100% Wildcrafted
90 Vegicaps $19.99

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"I take vitamin C for colds…I prefer to get mine from camu camu, the amazing Amazonian fruit that has the world's highest vitamin C content."

Dr. James Duke,
USDA scientist and
author of The Green Pharmacy

Camu Camu (Myrciaria Dubia) is a low-growing shrub found throughout the Amazon Rainforest, mainly in swampy or flooded areas. The plants bear round orange-colored fruit which have recently attracted world-wide attention. For years the scientific community has known that camu camu berries provide the richest and most bio-available source of vitamin C on the planet. However, their availability has been significantly limited as they grow only in remote, hard-to-reach areas of the Amazon Rainforest. However, we are now able to offer you a 100% natural camu camu berry concentrate powder standardized to 20% naturally occurring vitamin C.

These camu camu berries are wildcrafted and hand-harvested by indigenous Amazon peoples during the annual flood season and are carefully selected at the optimal stage of vitamin C development.

After harvesting, the berries are stored at the processing facility at temperatures just above freezing to preserve their vital nutrients and stringent temperature controls are maintained during the entire concentrating process. The berries are gently concentrated in a cold-liquid extraction and then the syrup is filtered to remove any fruit solids. The concentration is then dried in a vacuum at low temperature to protect its fragile, heat-and oxygen-sensitive vitamin C. This results in an unusually potent concentrate without the need for any added ascorbic acid - a truly natural vitamin C product. Our camu camu concentrate is blended with pure, nutritive manioc root powder to ensure a free-flowing and stable product, avoiding the use of any potentially genetically modified material such as maltodextrin. One half gram of Camu Camu provides 100 milligrams of complex food-form vitamin C, along with its naturally occurring bioflavanoids, anthocyanins and other vital co-factors.

Camu Camu offers astringent, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, emollient, and nutritive properties and contains numerous phytochemicals such as natural beta-carotene, calcium, iron, niacin, phosphorus, protein, riboflavin, and thiamin. This makes camu camu invaluable for metabolic processes, including the formation of white blood cells, maintaining a healthy immune system, and supports the brain, lymph glands, heart and lungs. Our Camu Camu contains no additives, fillers, corn, gluten or synthetic ascorbic acid and is Certified Kosher.

Is Your Vitamin C Supplement... Really Vitamin C?

Ninety-nine percent of all vitamin C supplements are ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate or potassium ascorbate. Despite marketing claims, these laboratory-produced molecules are not natural vitamin C. They are chemically synthesized molecules, often made from genetically modified corn sugar. These synthetic molecules mimic only one of the numerous life-supporting molecules found in 100% natural vitamin C.

In the 1930’s, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi won the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying vitamin C and all its many health benefits. Although he successfully isolated the molecule ascorbic acid in his research, his studies clearly demonstrated the vastly superior benefits of consuming foods rich in vitamin C. For this reason, even though he discovered ascorbic acid, he did not recommend its use! In fact, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi affirmed over and over again that the best results occurred when people consumed vitamin C in its natural food form.

Today, most of us are familiar with the many scientific studies demonstrating vitamin C's important health-enhancing and anti-oxidants benefits. What people may not know is that like Dr. Szent-Gyorgi's research, much of this research is conducted using foods high in vitamin C and not synthetic ascorbic acid supplements.

This is a very significant distinction - scientists and healthcare providers consistently emphasize the importance of obtaining all our nutrients from whole foods. The proven health benefits we all associate with vitamin C are actually created by the intricate interaction of numerous supportive co-factors found only in food - not in isolated, synthesized molecules.