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Edit: Also limes for sailors.

Actually that's a terrible idea. You want lemons, not limes. Really.

See http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm for a discussion of where the myth to the contrary came from, and for the complex history of how the proper prevention of scurvy was discovered, forgotten, proved false, and only later rediscovered again. It also discusses why you really don't want to use limes.



I apologize for this "+1" comment, but this scott-and-scurvy story is really awesome, on all sorts of levels. Science is hard to do correctly!




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