The Stuff inside Food

Sabron I hate you lol, I JUST got done eating a McDonald sandwich omfg. That blew my high xD.

Acually all this information is correct expect for the mcdonalds part witch i hear as a myth and decided to pass it on.,... Every thing else is 100% accurate and correct.. I will look up each chemical and post when i can

There's no need to, Sabron. The facts have already been sorted from the fiction up above. And about half of it was fiction or at least partially inaccurate. You'll have to trust me on this. Both Google and Google Scholar are good places to find concrete nutritional/food safety facts, but I'm fortunate enough to also have an entire networked U.S. medical school library at my disposal. You'll wanna do thorough research before you post things sight un-researched, as it were.

Hey birgirl, I was under the impression that Vitamin C was simply ascorbic acid, which contains only C, H, and O, and no Na, and that Sodium ascorbate was a salt of that acid.
Not to mince molecules :D

You did a good job mincing molecules! The strange thing is--and I've wondered why they do this--most general chemistry info on the Web, along with the biochem professors and all the chemists who work with us at school, use the terms interchangeably. And the basic acids compared to the salts really aren't interchangeable because of the addition of the sodium. I've heard them doing that with other salts, too. I know I did that with sodium ascorbate because I've heard it done that way. But why do real chemists do that? Because they think of them as the same thing?