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Is Citric Acid Harmful?

A hoax hoodwinks European consumers.

November 2, 2010 |
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Sources Cited

Kapferer, J.N. A mass poisoning rumor in Europe. Public Opin Q (1989) 53 (4): 467-481.

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What about the preservative citric acid. Bad for you, harmless, or good for you?
In Europe, it’s been described as the most dangerous carcinogen of all. But, that was a total hoax. Citric acid is harmless—in fact citrus fruits are up to about 10% citric acid by weight.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out theother “HHH” videos (Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful?). Also, there are over a thousand subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

For some context, please check out my associated blog post: Soymilk: shake it up!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the other “HHH” videos (Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful?). Also, there are over a thousand subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/7worships/ 7worships

    No doubt you are the expert and probably right about citric acid being harmless to most people. However, based on my own personal experience,there is no doubt in my mind that it clearly aggravates my eczema, and the same has been observed in the case of other family members. Perhaps we are in the minority, but still, for us citric acid is HARMFUL.

  • herbalist

    Intresting personel fact, eating citric acid in fruit does not bother me though citric acid added in food products such as tomato sauce (makes up for the fact food manufactures put less tomatoes in said product) etc gives me stomach problems. The problem is so severe(increased acidity) that I have to consume a cup or two of slippery elm gruel to neutralize(absorb) the acidity so my stomach can function properly again. This is yet another example of how removing various chemical componets out of the food itself become problematic and even toxic. It is said that in order to neutralize the acidity found in concentrated juices, that every 1c of concentrated juice requires 16 c of water. I wonder what 1t-1T of white powder compared to 1c of juice would take?

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