Thebitterestballen t1_iucivv8 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:11 AM

Reply to comment by OneEightActual in The Discovery that Lemons Cure Scurvy Caused the Formation of the Sicilian Mafia by agreea

Also many spices, such as chilli or star anise, contain huge amounts of vitamin C. There where ships that lost most of their crew to scurvy while bringing spices from the east, without knowing their ship was stuffed with the cure.

OneEightActual t1_iucpygv wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:53 AM

Still funner fact: Albert Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1937 for (among other things) discovering Vtiamin C in paprika. This was basically the point at which it finally started to become understood.