Oh Gross! I have been researching this and hoping it is not true..... You know on your food labels when you read Citric Acid??? If you thought it actually came from citrus fruits you are sadly mistaken.. They extract it from MOLD. Yeah, Genetically Modified mold grown on GMO corn syrup. yummy... The ability of the mold Aspergillus niger to produce citric acid as a byproduct of metabolism was discovered by American food chemist James Currie in 1917. The process of cultivating A. niger and allowing it to metabolize sucrose or glucose to yield citric acid proved efficient and inexpensive. Once it was possible to produce a seemingly endless supply of citric acid, companies like Pfizer and Citrique Belge began producing it on an industrial scale. This same technique is used to produce citric acid today.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:51:41 +0000
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