<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> At 09:54 AM 8/23/00 -0700, Jeryl Cordell wrote: >Don't know the usability of the calcium hydroxide they use in OJ? Does >anybody have any info on that? Jere, my Tropicana OJ box lists in one set of parentheses "(Calcium hydroxide, malic acid, citric acid)." Calcium citrate/malate combines calcium with citric acid and malic acids. Many researchers believe that calcium citrate/malate is the most bioavailable form of calcium. So what you see listed is actually calcium citrate, which may be the most easily assimilated form of calcium. -vance BTW, perhaps I didn't make it clear in my first post to the list that getting enough calcium is more important to most people than getting too much. I only sent that warning because I didn't know before that too much calcium also presented its own problems. The only way you can get too much is to eat a lot of artificially fortified foods on purpose like the Venus di Milo did. First make certain you have enough. Osteoporosis is no joke. -vance