==Citric Acid is made from "black mold" NOT Fruit courtesy Pfizer==
Citric Acid does NOT come from fruit & 50% comes from China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_niger
1 - In 1893, C. Wehmer discovered Penicillium mold could produce citric acid from sugar. However, microbial production of citric acid did not become industrially important until World War I disrupted Italian citrus exports.
2 - In 1917, American food chemist James Currie discovered certain strains of the mold Aspergillus niger could be efficient citric acid producers, and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer began industrial-level production using this technique two years later, followed by Citrique Belge in 1929. In this production technique, which is still the major industrial route to citric acid used today, cultures of A. niger are fed on a sucrose or glucose-containing medium to produce citric acid.
3 - Aspergillus niger is a fungus and one of the most common species of the genus Aspergillus.
4 - It causes a disease called "black mold" on certain fruits and vegetables such as grapes, apricots, onions, and peanuts, and is a common contaminant of food. It is ubiquitous in soil and is commonly reported from indoor environments, where its black colonies can be confused with those of Stachybotrys (species of which have also been called "black mold").[1]
5 - Some strains of A. niger have been reported to ==produce potent mycotoxins called ochratoxins==;[2] other sources disagree, claiming this report is based upon misidentification of the fungal species.[citation needed] Recent evidence suggests some true A. niger strains do produce ochratoxin A.[1][3] It also produces the isoflavone orobol.
6- More than 50% of this volume was produced in China
