Unlike more than 99% of all animals, we humans suffer from a genetic defect, Hypoacascorbemia, an inability to produce Vitamin C in our own bodies. This increases our susceptibility to disease and shortens our life span. MA II Mineral Ascorbates powder disperses in water, forming a solution with a mild lime taste. Unlike high levels of ascorbic acid which can lower the pH of the urine to 4, MA II Mineral ascorbates are essentially pH neutral. In this form, they carry C to some 70 trillion cells of the human body, as in most other animals which produce their own C.