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To: Kartographer; All
Here is an important item to stock; Vitamin C or preserved lemon/citrus. Please find a PDF recipe at link for preserving lemons/citrus (written by British Anna Colquhoun).

You must maintain Vitamin C in your diet or be subject to deadly Scurvy.

What causes scurvy?

“…The primary cause of Scurvy is insufficient intake of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). This may be due to ignorance, famine, anorexia, restrictive diets (due to allergies, food fads, etc.), or difficulty orally ingesting foods. Historically, scurvy was the result of long sea voyages where sailors did not bring along enough foods with vitamin C...” MedicalNewsToday.com

http://www.culinaryanthropologist.org/recipe%20pdfs/Preserved%20lemons.pdf

I have this on hand for everyday use but, did not know the extreme value. It takes 30 days to cure the citrus. Any citrus will work ie, lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges etc.

51 posted on 03/31/2012 7:47:30 PM PDT by califamily4W
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To: califamily4W
In a pinch you can boil up some pine needles if nothing else is available. However preserved lemons and limes are lovely for their own sake.
67 posted on 04/01/2012 2:10:56 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
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To: califamily4W

Cole crops, cabbage, are a good source of vitamin “C”


72 posted on 04/01/2012 11:24:59 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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