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flourishingvoid t1_iuee7qj wrote

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

Ok and?

It was considered poisonous in Europe broadly... In Italy specifically around the late 17th century and maybe early 18th century.

How does that in any way reduce my point?

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_kroy t1_iuef7in wrote

I mean, just in that old habits die hard and tomatoes, which are difficult to store, transport, doesn’t keep fresh long, vitamin C gets destroyed easily, means specifically they probably weren’t looking towards this as a scurvy cure

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flourishingvoid t1_iueg7g5 wrote

Yeah, but it was a side example, some other fruits and vegetables could have been used... Bell pepper and cabbage are good examples

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_kroy t1_iuegm07 wrote

Sure. And that was the point, which you somehow took extremely defensively.

In a conversation about scurvy and vitamin C, tomatoes are a less-than-ideal example, especially when you point out that the vitamin c is destroyed

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flourishingvoid t1_iuegumm wrote

Yeah, but that was the whole point... I compared the worst to the best stressing why Tomatoes weren't used with complimentary justifications about cooking.

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