# Citric Acid in Electrolytes: Claims About Black Mold and Food Safety

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119405443223093441
- Source account: [@Fa21519230](https://x.com/Fa21519230)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:52
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety) Did you know you're eating black mold? If you drink any of these electrolytes that are on the market that contain citric acid, you are consuming black mold.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=7) It's used during the fermentation process to make citric acid.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=10) It's financially impossible for a company to make organic citric acid from lemon peels in mass production and not charge you two hundred dollars for that bag of electrolytes.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=19) That's why they use black mold. And a lot of these people that are selling this stuff are gonna tell you it's made from cassava root.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=24) It's still made from black mold. And this is regulated by GRAS, which is generally recommended as safe.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=30) One of RFK's missions is to dive deeper into GRAS to find out if these things that they're putting in our foods are actually poison.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=37) Last time I checked, black mold was poison.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=39) It's not just electrolytes. Citric acid is in so many things.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=42) Just a little bit of poison here and there is gonna add up.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=45) I never wanted to go down this rabbit hole, but, but I did. It's scary.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Nch0ddUTpoMV/en/citric-acid-in-electrolytes-claims-about-black-mold-and-food-safety?t=48) We have to be more aware of what we're putting in our bodies.