Naka Platinum 100% Pure Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C Powder 2000mg, Antioxidant and Immune Support, Unflavoured, 450g

Naka Platinum 100% Pure Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C Powder Details

Naka Platinum 100% Pure Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C Powder is exactly what the name says: pure ascorbic acid, unflavoured, nothing buffered, sweetened or added. A half-teaspoon serving supplies 2,000 mg of vitamin C, and the 450 g tub works out to roughly 225 servings. Naka calls it clinically graded and notes that it dissolves instantly in water or any beverage. The reason to buy a powder rather than a tablet is control: you set the serving, and you pay for vitamin C rather than excipients.

Naka's stated benefits are the established vitamin C ones — a factor in the normal development and maintenance of bones, cartilage, teeth and gums, and as a well-known antioxidant it offers immune support while protecting cells against free radicals. Listed as gluten-free. Made in Canada.

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Quick Facts

Who This Vitamin C Powder Is For

• Anyone taking vitamin C by the gram who has worked out how many tablets that means
• People who want to set their own serving instead of being held to whatever a capsule contains
• Buyers after the lowest cost per gram of vitamin C on the shelf, which a plain unflavoured powder almost always is
• Those who want nothing in the tub but vitamin C: no rosehip, no bioflavonoids, no sweetener, no capsule shell
• People already mixing a drink in the morning — it dissolves instantly into water or juice
• Anyone wanting a tub that lasts: around 225 servings is a long way from a 180-count bottle

Who this product is NOT for: This is unbuffered ascorbic acid, genuinely tart in water — if you prefer a gentler form, Naka Platinum Pro C2000 is the buffered version in natural orange flavour and the better buy for you. If you want vitamin C with its traditional companions, Naka Platinum Nutri C Complex adds quercetin, rose hips and bioflavonoids at declared amounts. And if you want something to drop in a bag, a powder and a measuring spoon is the wrong format — Vitamin C Capsules covers that.

Vitamart's Take

Plain ascorbic acid powder is the least glamorous product in the vitamin C category and the best value in it. No flavour system to pay for, no tablet binder, no capsule, no mineral buffer — just the vitamin, at clinical grade, in a 450 g tub. For anyone running a high daily intake the arithmetic is not close, and 450 g lasts the better part of a year at a serving a day.

Two honest things. First, unbuffered means acidic. It tastes sharp and it is unflavoured, so it belongs in juice or a strong-tasting drink if tartness bothers you — and if that is a dealbreaker, buy the buffered orange powder and accept the higher cost per gram. Second, the serving is small and the tub is not: a half teaspoon delivers 2,000 mg, so a 450 g tub runs to roughly 225 servings. Measure it rather than eyeballing it.

How This Vitamin C Powder Compares

Vitamin C separates on four things: dose, the form of the C, whether anything comes with it, and format. This is high dose, plain ascorbic acid, nothing added, powder.

• Versus Naka Platinum Pro C2000: Same brand and 2,000 mg target, but buffered and orange-flavoured in a 400 g tub. Gentler to drink; this one is unbuffered, unflavoured, larger and lower-cost per gram.
• Versus Naka Platinum Pro C1000: The same pure ascorbic acid in a timed-release capsule at 1,000 mg each — portable and tasteless, at a far higher cost per gram.
• Versus a vitamin C complex: Naka Platinum Nutri C Complex is a buffered liquid with quercetin, rose hips, bioflavonoids and bilberry declared alongside the C. Different purpose — companions rather than grams.
• Versus chewables and gummies: Typically 250 mg to 500 mg a piece with sugar or sweetener. Fine for a top-up, hopeless for grams a day.

What Does Unbuffered Vitamin C Mean?

Ascorbic acid is vitamin C in its own right — the acid itself, nothing attached. A buffered vitamin C is that same acid neutralised with a mineral to form a salt: calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate. Buffering raises the pH so the powder is far less sharp in water, which is why buffered products are the ones sold as easy drinking. The vitamin C is identical once absorbed; what changes is how the mixture behaves in the glass.

Unbuffered has two advantages worth knowing. The first is purity of dose: with no mineral bound to it, 100% of the weight is vitamin C, so a gram of this powder is a gram of C. In a buffered ascorbate a meaningful share of the weight is the mineral, and you take that calcium or sodium in every serving. The second is cost, for the same reason. The trade-off is the tartness, and that is the whole decision. As Naka's copy notes, vitamin C is water-soluble and is not stored within the body — humans cannot manufacture it — so it must come in through diet and supplementation, and Naka recommends divided doses through the day since excess is lost in urine within a few hours.

How To Use

One serving is a half teaspoon supplying 2,000 mg of vitamin C as ascorbic acid, stirred into water or any beverage, or as suggested by a healthcare practitioner. Naka's own guidance is that vitamin C is best taken in divided doses through the day.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pairs Well With

• Boost Immune System — where vitamin C sits in the wider immune range
• Quercetin Supplements — the plant flavonoid most often taken alongside vitamin C
• Antioxidant Supplements — the reference point most of the category is measured against
• Cough, Cold & Flu — the seasonal shelf this sells from most

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Compare Similar Products

• Naka Platinum Pro C2000 — the buffered, orange-flavoured powder if plain ascorbic acid is too sharp
• Naka Platinum Pro C1000 Timed Release — the same pure ascorbic acid in a portable capsule
• Naka Platinum Immune Strength — vitamin C with quercetin and zinc in a capsule
• Vitamin C Powder — every powder we carry, to compare buffered against plain and cost per gram

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Take 1 capsule 2 times per day with food or as suggested by a healthcare practitioner