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    WINTER WONDER

    Jun 12, 2019 3 minutes

    EVEN BEFORE IT had a scientific label, we had a hunch that vitamin C did good things. When Captain James Cook went exploring, a lack of fresh food on board his ship also meant vitamin C deprivation: the first signs were fragile and discoloured skin, the last were too dreadful to detail and often fatal. Although he didn’t know why it worked, Cook fed his crew sauerkraut and lemon juice to help keep scurvy (caused by vitamin C deficiency) at bay.

    Since then,

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