What are the benefits of drinking Noni Juice?

What are the benefits of drinking orange juice compared to taking a vitamin C supplement?

• I am curious if drinking orange juice which contains a lot of sugars and preservatives is more detrimental to my health than taking a vitamin c tablet minus all the unnecessary things in orange juice

• Answer:

  Ahh, complicated.    Taking straight vitamin C gives you more vitamin C.  If we are to believe the manufacturers of whole food supplements (I'm using Innate Response's literature on electron microscopy), the absorption of straight vitamin C is very poor, around the 16% range.  In comparison, the vitamin C absorbed from an orange is closer to the 96% range.  To bypass this issue, we have whole food vitamin C that should be closer to the orange in absorption.    But orange juice is a different matter than an orange.  If we believe The Secret House, orange juice from concentrate also contains solids from the pressing floor.  These solids have been treated with formaldehyde and reconstituting them (adding them back) does not require any particular labeling.  I discovered this when a patient complained that she could drink orange juice in Florida but not in Maine.  She was having an allergic reaction to the added formaldehyde.    We can bypass the formaldehyde issue by avoiding orange juice reconstituted from concentrate.    So which is better, organic fresh pressed orange juice or whole food vitamin C?  The orange juice, because the number of compounds we do not understand far exceeds those we do.  On the other hand, if you are more likely to get the vitamin C capsule into you and the fresh squeezed isn't going to happen, then that is better.  In the end, it's all about long term compliance.This answer is not a substitute for professional medical advic...