Ascorbic Acid VS Vitamin C Complex

And I quote:

"Whole food vitamin C as found in potatoes, onions, and citrus fruits is able to quickly cure any case of scurvy. By contrast, the fractionated chemical ascorbic acid has been shown to be insufficient in resolving a scurvy condition, simply because it does not act as a nutrient. (Lancet 1842)

Ascorbic acid simply cannot confer vitamin activity, as taught by the discoverer of vitamin C himself, another Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Albert Szent-Georgi."


I'm trying to settle this once and for all: Ascobric Acid needs other factors to cure scurvy, not ascorbic acid alone, right?

Source:

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/vitaminC/Ascorbic-Acid-Is-Not-Vitamin-C.php



I saw this as an article elsewhere, verbatim, link lost among many.