What would have been the most effective means of preventing scurvy during the age of sail had they actually understood the cause? Citrus fruits wouldn't keep for long voyages.
Just bring some vitamins or some shit
>>365574
Sauerkraut maybe?
Dried fruits
>>365621
Most of the vitamin C is lost in the drying process. Some sticks around though.
>>365574
They could have put frozen oranges in a freezer and powered it with solar panels.
>>365632
I was thinking the amount of dried fruit you could carry in comparison to the amount of non dried fruit (which wouldn't keep anyway) would level out the problem
>>365651
How does one make a compressor and solar cells in the seventeenth century? I'm legitimately interested.
>>365574
SAUERKRAUT
Lemon and Lime juice can be canned, you know
>>365651
this.
also, ice cubes made of citrics since ice doesn't rot.
>>365574
They canned lime juice and topped it with olive oil to keep the oxygen away, this worked somewhat. Sauerkraut was the other method. Chinese apparently had a method to grow sprouts from seeds and hence always had fresh veggies.
>>365891
Too bad they accidentally oxidized all the vitamin C every time they tried to do that back then.
