Make your own store of vitamin C

Making your own vitamin C supplement is a great way of ensuring a pure, non-synthetic source of vitamins, using up food which you may otherwise discard, and storing enough vitamin C to get you through the winter.  Following this simple recipe to make vitamin C will provide you with a good natural source of beneficial ‘bioflavonoids’, as well as live enzymes that will allow the vitamin C to be 100% absorbed into the body.

All you need is the peel of oranges and or lemons. Please make sure that they are un-waxed and organic.

Here is how it’s done:

1. Wash the fruits then place them in a bowl of salt water for half an hour. Then wash them thoroughly in cold water.
2. Peel the fruit and cut the peel into very thin strips. I use scissors. (You can still eat the fruit as normal).
3. Leave the peel strips on a plate at room temperature for 3 days or until dry and crisp. Alternatively you may dry them in a food dehydrator.
4. Store in a clean, dry container for up to a year.

To use:

Break up strips into smaller pieces or grind in a coffee grinder.
Add to a smoothie (just before blending), or mix with some fresh juice.
One heaped teaspoon of powdered peel is more than enough to get your daily supply of vitamin C.