Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Sailor Rations in the 18th Century - Burgoo" video.

So they switched to molasses dispite it containing no vitamin C because of scurvy? ...kinda like once it was discovered that citrus would cure scurvy, they chose to forgo the cheaper European lemons for limes which had about half the vitamin C to start with, which was almost all destroyed by the boiling and leaving open to air in copper vessels. I like learning about historic food, reguardles, but I'm really glad we're actually starting to figgure out nutrition (as long as you stay away from clickbait sites and people trying to sell you things) because for a scavenger species we're remarkably bad at understanding it sometimes I just am left facepalming and then chuckling at how consistently bad we are at it. Molasses does have a lot of different minerals, though, so a couple tablespoons could be beneficial for a few things (though just a small teaspoon wouldn't do much, and it covers much of the same range as the oats) and unlike a lot of things on a ship it would keep well, so there's that.
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