Cheryl wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ster.com...
>
> >
> > If you're going to do that, just go to the health food store and buy a
> > bottle of crystalline powder ascorbic acid. There might be some legal
> > issues with doing that to serve to others though. I'd suggest that
> > oxygen removal / displacement is a safer route.
>
> I was kind of thinking that the addition of any vitamin supplement might
> need to be disclosed to those eating it, but just eating fruit is also
> introducing the natural form of the powdered supplement. But I wonder if
> more is added as a preservative that some people might need to know it's
> there?
>

In the commercial food world I think it would be an "undeclared
ingredient" as seen in many FDA recall notices.