You are 100% right. About 10 yrs ago I was able to pinpoint several food allergies and the main cause on my migraines was manufactured citric acid.

It is absolutely a full-time job trying to stay ahead of all these "ingredients" involving our food. Thank you Heidi for all you do.

Thank you. Very valuable information. Frustrating, but valuable.

Thank you, I have been using it for years, will follow your guidance to make a substitute. Have a blessed weekend 👍❤

Really appreciate your bringing this to our attention Heidi! I am late to this video. Recently I bought citric acid to make gummy bears and to put some extra vit c into diet. Yikes! Out of 20 companies researched I found 3 companies that use organic powdered fruits and not citric acid in their products. They are Koyah - Organic Lemon Powder - USA or Mexico Grown & Freeze-dried; Pure Synergy - Organic Berry Power; and Laird Superfood - Organic - A zesty twist on your normal lemon water and the easiest way to jump start your morning. Just add hot or cold water. These companies are not using citric acid per se, but the whole powders of different fruits. Though as ascorbic acid, they are an excellent health drink as well as a very good preservative. Really interesting that the companies listing their products as organic, non gmo and food grade critic acid did not say where the critic came from but had a long list of what it could be used for (laundry and ect.) and did not mention how it could be used in eating.

Well, that just figures! I get so tired of ‘people’ messing with my food! (air, water etc...) Who has time to figure this out? The list is becoming endless. Thanks for your hard work and great attitude!

Citric acid is used in making several varieties of cheese, mozzerella is one, so cheeses, freeze dried also contain it to some extent. I agree with being informed and limiting what you can from our diets, it can be a full time job keeping up with it all. Thanks for sharing this information, we'll read more about it this weekend.

I was just going to ask if you tested the acidity of the banana mint vinegar, when you talked about the 3.5 ph. Love how thorough you are. You’re our homestead scientist.

Love the info and the scripture- I had that verse in my mind this morning. 💗💗

Thanks for the info. I’m very allergic to mold so this is very important for me. Had no idea!

Usually, I use lemon juice to soak my fruits in before freezing. I try to use as natural as possible in everything. I did not know this about modern day citrus acid. Its good to know in reading labels. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Heidi, I have a very negative response to molds.

Wow, I had citric acid on my shopping list this morning and forgot to even look for it. Then I saw this video and decided to watch it. Thank you Jesus that I did. Great information, thank you.

Very helpful information my dear. Your a lady full of knowledge 😊👍🏻 thank you I’ll be reading labels a little more in depth.

I found this very interesting and helpful! I will definitely be more aware of which Citric Acid I am buying.

Very insightful. I bought the everyday name brand of CA for canning and cheese making. I won't be using it for food now! Nice to know about the cleaning tips so it doesn't go to waste. Thanks & Blessings to you.

I no longer eat cheese (or any dairy products), so if I want to add a cheesy flavor to something (like popcorn) I use nutritional yeast. Thanks for the great information.

Thanks for this! I'm just starting on my canning and preserving and I was wondering about this

Thank you!!! I have had a lotbof trouble with mold, all kinds!!! Will not use critic acid!!! I need to make some vinegar. I use the store bought now.

Always helpful! Can we dehydrate citrus, rehydrate, and use the “juice” to put on fruit such as apples so they don’t brown? Also do you use organic bananas for the banana peel and mint vinegar since you use it in food? Timely video because I was considering buying some citric acid... now won’t be doing it for food reasons.

Thank you, thank you so much for this information!! I never knew....so great to know. God bless all you do.

Just got interested in it for cleaning. Will look a little deeper into the Black Mold stuff. Thank You.

Thank you so much for your insight and research on this matter. So grateful.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge I've learned SO MUCH from you God Bless you and your family from middle GA 🙏

Thank You for the info.... ironically my oldest son just told me about this citric acid mold situation 2 days ago. Your video is right on time. I'm going to avoid it as much as possible. I also ordered Mr Rain's Chamber & the drying rack 😍. Thanks for putting out Awesome content & products! ❤

I’m very glad you posted this. I was deathly ill with aspergillosis for over 9 years and am only recently approaching normalcy (out of wheelchair, regaining bladder function, no new tumors) and people still think I’m overly cautious about substances derived from mold. Interestingly, my presenting symptom (aside from asthma) was a CORN allergy. People think white vinegar is a wonderful cleaner, but hello! It’s CORN. There was a time when I couldn’t be hospitalized bc 85% of medical disposables are made from corn, and my house was toxic too. I strongly suggest that anyone with unexplained headaches or joint pain actually examine how much corn is in their diet. One day we were in the grocery store (2011) and a rash appeared on my hands. It was a produce bags. “Compostable”! “Green”! Oh sure. More fields of GMO corn. And if that’s not scary enough, Google “contraceptive corn” and remember that a certain billionaire purchased Monsanto years ago, and now he pushes vaccines.

Dear Heidi, thank you for all the information!! I have to admit that I never thought about these issues with citric acid 🤔 I use it exclusively for brightening white laundry from time to time. There's a company here in Germany called "Heitmann", they produce organic citric acid. I hope, you can get it in America!! For everything else I use (thanks to you 😉) my homemade vinegars. Stay as you are and be save 😘 Maren

This is a personal story I have. One day about 3 weeks ago I developed an insanely painful hip then pain all over, I had lactic acid build up in my body and ached all over, could hardly walk, then rest, make it though work barely and repeat, I did not know what was causing it but I was pretty much an invalid all of a sudden. I narrowed it down to a new food, pickels, I've been binging them daily lately, same bottles, I noticed they used citric acid on ingredients label. During the 4 day weekend I ate light and my pain eased up and I forgot all about it, then on Sunday I ate 6-9 small pickles, within 20 minutes I started seizing up and was in pain for the next 48 hours, 72 hours later I was all clear. I researched citric acid then found out it's made from mold! I researched citric acid function in the body and then found out it's one of the first processes in the Krebs cycle, so basically I was being poisoned and will ALWAYS from now avoid ANY non lemon etc derived citric acid! Be careful!

😳oh my goodness!! I had no idea! And I try to keep up on additives, etc. Thank you for the heads up!

Interesting. I don't use citric acid as much as I'd like to, but I'm sure it's in many things I eat. I'd love to research this. ☺️

Thank you Heidi for this information. I was going to use my Citric Acid for my growing micro greens so now I will consider an alternative.

Thanks for the reminder.❤ I can't remember what I found that said it was from fruits...and it was also years ago. This is what depressed me even further when I went to some Celiac meetings. Everything was making me sick....still feel sick, but much better.

That's wild! Who would've ever guessed that mint and bananas would produce a lemon flavor! I really enjoy watching your experiments, U could have a whole series of Experiments! I believe that would b a big hit! u could title it something like Experiment with me or Heide's Experiment's...u get the idea lol

I use from the health food store rose hips vitamin C for my acid

Another great video!!!😊 I seen the banana mint creation you did in another video I’m gonna have to try that!!!🌱🍌

Another great video! Thank you

My question is... is the canning citric acid also an issue? I only ever really use it if I dont have lemon or lime juice in a recipe. But it's a great way to add tartness to foods and it's specifically meant to help with canning.

Can you recommend a brand that comes from lemons? I found a few "organic" labels but none that explicitly say them come from lemons for citric acid. I currently use the NOW brand for cheese making.

That banana and Mojito leaf trick is GOLD. PURE GOLD! I have some mint planted and growing but I want maybe to plant some Mojito this spring.

I’m going to try it for making dishwasher powder. Its a recipe I found on a reputable site. Using it with other ingredients seems ok ? Not ingesting it .. white vinegar for rinse agent.

I watched another of your videos about vitamins and you said you really like the NOW brand. I’m looking for a magnesium glycinate supplement and found the first ingredient in the NOW brand is Citric Acid which you say in this video is not good. How can I find out what type citric acid NOW is using…any suggestions?

Oh - how disgusting. HOW can they get away with making products to go in food like this?!?! Natural food Please!

GO FIGURE! When canning I use bottle lemon juice.

It absolutely blows my mind that anyone would think making citric acid in this way would be a good thing. Even if 'most' people aren't bothered by this strain! Research time again. You, my dear, are a treasure.

Wow .. Thank you so very much for the info.

Thank you for telling us this!!!!bless you!

I saw here while back that the citric acid can be used for pickling gold or silver objects after they have been heated to solder them to remove the firescale instead of using a mixture of sulfuric acid and water, so there is another use for it. . I'm glad youmade this video, I just got some the last time I went to the store, I was going to try to use it instead of vinegar for pickling to get rid of that strong vinegar taste. Thanks

Thank you for this information.

Thank you for this video! Just subscribed! You rock!!

TY for sharing this information.

Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention! I contacted mountain rose herbs and they use aspergillus niger fungus in the process of making the citric acid !!

I always thought it was part of stomach problems like mine I'm going to watch for it now

Excellent expose sister, I was absolutely dumbfounded when I would learn that synthetic acid is made from black mold. Eeeeek!! Praise be to God, may He bless you and yours always

Wow!!! This is wonderful info!! YOU are wonderful!!! Thanks bunches! Love, hugs and blessings ~The Kid! 😉🥰

I love the information. Have you ever heard of nutritional yeast for that cheese flavor. You can add it to popcorn or make cheese sauces. But it's just a baked yeast that ends up tasting cheesy. It's a one ingredient shelf stable cheese flavor. Thanks for a great video.

Ugh! So sneaky... Who would think black mold... I keep it for making my dishwasher detergent, but this is good to make a note of. Heidi, do you can with your homemade vinegar when it tests at a PH of 3.5?

Hi Heidi, thanks for the great information. Nice to know these things. And now I want to make some banana/mint vinegars. You are a fountain of information. 🙂 GIGATT 😊

So, in a tincture that I am making, that asked for citric acid in order to extract the alkaloids out of the herb, I can use real lemon juice instead, to get the ph down to the right level? I bought a food grade citric acid that said it was non gmo certified. Does that mean it could still have mold? I’m a little bit confused still.

I make my own efir, and I have whey, is that okay to use as a preservative, and also, rosemary mint infused preservative, also ACV

Yes He is. Can you use citric acid in place of lemon juice in recipes ❓

Thanks so much for the info!

could you dry your lemons and make lemon powder equivalent to citric acid? Just wondering. I have a huge lemon tree and we get so many lemons we never know what to do with them all. We give them away, I dehydrate them. I don't want the peel because its bitter. I just don't know how to make the lemon part be turned into powder.

Black mould! I'm fresh lemons it is, thank you for sharing this information,

Is there anything about healthy living that you don't know? Thank heaven you make videos from which we can learn. Bless you, Heidi, bless you. ~ Lisa

I have a question about copper. Is it pure or does it have other things mixed in with it? I have some for science projects and it's made in China. Is there a copper that doesn't have impurities in it and where might I find it?

Koyah has the whole lemon organic freeze dried. I wrote to ask if it is gmo. Will let you know.

Can I use lemon juice instead of citric acid in making the copper?

Wow! Thanks for the info! I never thought citric acid was made of nothing else but lemons & thought it was a more natural preservative😔 Just another thing i have to be more adamant to stay away from.

the only thing i use citric acid for is cleaning my water distiller... blessings

Thanks for sharing , stay safe , God bless !

Thank you. I am extremely allergic to black mold.

I have a 5lbs bag of millard citric acid for making colloidal copper and what nots. I couldn't find anything other than ingredients state citric acid, organic, and non GMO. Like you, time is very limited and it's a very good question well worth finding out. I submitted an inquiry to the company about how they make it. Let's see what they say... 🤔

Oy....I learned this the very hard way! I read that I needed to load up on Vitamin C a few years ago (before I chucked all my vitamin supplements!)...so I found a "good" brand and went to work on it. I have arthritis anyway, so I just thought it had gotten worse when I started bulking up on C. Then I read that most C supplements are made from CORN. Corn's a major source of trouble for *my* knee pain! Even if it's organic...rats. So, I found a supplement made from cherries. Still a problem! I did some more research and found that, if you tend to overachieve in the iron department (and I do), Vitamin C, from any source, can cause the iron to be even more of an inflammatory issue. That's why they suggest that people with anemia take their iron with orange juice (or something like that)....it helps the iron get into the cells more efficiently. Great if you're anemic....but not if you overproduce iron. I got rid of all my various C supps, and now get my C naturally, and very moderately! :) Thank you for another great lesson, Heidi!

Wow, thanks for the heads up. Isn't it totally crazy where most of our grocery store food comes from? It seems like I recently saw a video on making lemon juice powder by freeze drying the juice. Not sure. I binge watch stuff then don't remember half of what I watched or think I mixed things up and not sure I didn't put the wrongs bits of info together. I'll see if I can find it.

Citric acid is in high-end electrolytes, shampoos, conditioners, "healthy" dishwashing liquids and hand soaps! It makes me itch like crazy. So hard to avoid it.

Came here because the Amish are currently fighting with the USDA regarding food "safety"

Any idea what else could be used in place of the citric acid when making bath bombs?

Interesting; thank you! I have a bunch of citric acid (no idea what source it is) but I bought it to use in my wine-making. Do you think that would be a problem there as well?

WOW! I had no idea. Fascinating

Now here is the major question. I’m glad you put out this video. That Heather on YT said that you have to have citric acid in your tomato sauce even if you pressure can it. She pulled out the USDA book that states you do. But then she turned around and canned chili beans not per USDA instructions. She made that clear. So I’m like “you’re going to actually can beans incorrectly. But you’re worried about citrus acid going into tomato sauce that’s pressure canned???

I love your videos I learn alot from you

Great job!

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading!

You are a treasure Heidi ❤. I use to read the labels of the food I by and many products contain citrid acid. Thank you for sharing your homemade recipe to avoid using c.a. ❤ Have a great day 😊

Thank you, Heidi- I had NO idea on this!

I just keep thinking of different exclamations about this, so frustrating! Industry or whomever, has taken a precious grain (corn) and morphed it in to some of the weirdest things. I always read the comments of your videos and didn't know white vinegar can be a corn product too. I'm wondering if the product True Lemon or lemon crystals that I found at Nuts dot com are equivalent to citric acid. Funny how citric acid usually has pictures of lemon on the package, what a deception. I can't thank you enough for all of your research and sharing

Wow! Thanks for the info!

Can you tell how you made the vinegar with the mint and banana peels? Thanks

Just picked up my first citric acid for preserving - haven't even opened it yet. I got it from Azure Standard and read the ingredients. It says Citric Acid from sugar beets and sugar cane. I didn't know they had citric acid in them. It does say it is Non-GMO but now I wonder if it is also made from black mold. I will send an email to try to get the answer. Thanks for the info.

Oh wow! Thank you.💜🙏

Shocking, but on the other hand not really. Scary the way things like this are acceptable. Could we dehydrate lemon or other citric fruits to make citric acid?

Can I sub lemon juice for citric acid to remove chlorine from my water?

Please mention me Matthew McIntear in your prayers. I'm feeling a growing overwhelming feeling and it's making me feel maybe my mom is right that I shouldnt preserve meat for the shelves. Im bedridden and she's scared to even learn it's possible to do. She rather think she can rely on the grocery stores whenever she needs something right when she needs it so she has nothing stored and keeps saying all the time that she will buy extra canned goods when she has extra money but that's just a way to get me to leave her alone about the importance of prepping something. My situation and Her thought process is already overwhelming for me since I am bedridden technically in her care right now. I recently oven canned brownies and I followed the instructions but didn't consider the time nor did I do the standard tooth pick in the center test because in this bed all I was thinking was to hurry and wipe rim and put lids on so they can seal which they did. But after two days I checked and opened one to check and the middle is completely not cooked. 7 pints of undercooked sealed cans of brownies that I already happily told everyone could last a year or two and all that rushed to my head was maybe my mom was right. Not about just waiting to hopefully be able to offered canned food when we need it as we need it but right that maybe I shouldn't do it. Its so hard to agree with that because in my heart I know with a little help or even support from family it would be so successful for all. I'm trying to get out of the if only and just face the facts that it's the Lord's mercy and I in this and He has blessed me to be able to watch so many fearless believers that's prepping the best we each can. That gives me joy to know you all are out there but meanwhile in here I feel if I accept my moms way and not try to can anything Its like just waiting for death. I'm sorry for the long comment but I'm tired of crying inside and I knew you would mention a prayer for me. John 15:5 King James Version 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Amen kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9qUntiYrKizY6M.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLSIlrKn1JfbkqM.html

Just bought Pharmaceutic grade, Organic, Non-GMO citric acid for making Cheese. What else can I use to make cheese?

Do you have a video about makiing the banana mint vinegar: and do you have one on using all your vinegars after they're made?

I thought I saw Azure had lemon powder, I'll have to check..

Suffering from gerd I wonder if citric acid is also causing this I know caffeine alcohol and acidic foods don't help

I just bought a bag of non gmo organic citric acid and it's a white powder in bag. Now I am going to have to research it further before I use it. We do buy a lot of lemons and use them in everything from tea to pasta sauce to glass cleaner and dried lemon powder.. so perhaps I'll stick to those. hmmm your videos are always so helpful. thx Heidi

Hello thank you for your videos I am wondering where to find a good multivitamin I have hypothyroidism and I am trying to get out all of this stuff I don't really want to shop at Amazon though. I just bout a vitamin and it has potassium sorbate in it I found out. So I need all the vitamins that my body needs maybe vitamin E do you have any suggestions? Thank you 🙏 for all your videos!

Yes, Israel has citric Acid from lemons, that have nothing added and the best salt clean as you can get becuz its has the cleanest air and the most oxygen due to the lowest place on the planet. He Dead Sea has some of the best salt out there..