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South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Scurvy Is Eliminated
Lynde had assumed that if fresh citrus juice worked, so too would boiled citrus juice. He was wrongand now know that heat isn't the only thing that destroys vitimin s. So does copper, which may be why navy ships with big copper cooking pots were so plagued by scurvy in the first place. It's not a good idea to store citrous juice in a glass bottle. None of this was r to the british navy.
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