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Since human's chemically isolated vitamin C (ascorbic acid), it has been one of the most widely used compounds on the planet. Vitamin C used to be derived naturally from rose hips but we soon discovered a more cost effective way of developing this vitamin which involved the use of corn. To create a concentrated form of vitamin C using corn takes a lot more processing than you might think. Melanie Werner describes the production of ascorbic acid in her book about the food industry. 'It starts not with corn kernels or even corn starch but with sorbitol, a sugar alcohol found naturally...