On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:01:50 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
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>once picked citrus loses half it's Vitamin C within 24
>hours (quicker if not refrigerated, as in most stores), and it can be
>weeks from harvest until you buy it at a market. So unless you are
>fortunate to have your own tree you are much better off buying citrus
>juice... with so called fresh citrus from the market essentially all
>the nutrition you get is sugar.

Tell that to all the sailors who prevented scurvy by eating citrus at
sea. http://www.mothernature.com/Library/...oks/10/104.cfm

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On Apr 12, 1:39�pm, sf <.> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:01:50 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
> wrote:
>
> >once picked citrus loses half it's Vitamin C within 24
> >hours (quicker if not refrigerated, as in most stores), and it can be
> >weeks from harvest until you buy it at a market. � So unless you are
> >fortunate to have your own tree you are much better off buying citrus
> >juice... with so called fresh citrus from the market essentially all
> >the nutrition you get is sugar.
>
> Tell that to all the sailors who prevented scurvy by eating citrus at
> sea. �http://www.mothernature.com/Library/...oks/10/104.cfm

They didn't prevent scurvy, most of those stories are myth... by
eating old citrus most contracted scurvy anyway... and many other
diseases due to lack of proper nutition (beri beri another), people
just didn't eat very nutritious diets back then, sailers or otherwise.

The body does a fine job of storing Vitamin C so only a small amount
ingested now and again is enough to replenish the supply. Those who
were generally healthy survived regardless.

Nowadays people in the US can live quite well if they never ingest any
citrus whatsoever, the American diet is rife with many other foods
containing Vitamin C... most everywhere one looks foods are fortified,
especially with Vitamin C... I wouldn't be surprised if Twinkies don't
contain six times the recommended allotment of Vitamin C. In the US
today it's more likely that there are more folks who overdose on
Vitamin C than all the sailers over the last 500 years who died of
scurvy.

There are no accurate records from back then indicating from what
people died... there were no death certificates, heck, there were no
birth certificates.