Nutrition History (from Parts Unknown)

For more than 300 years, scurvy was the greatest menace to maritime exploration and long-distance seafaring. The true cause of the disease-Vitamin C deficiency-eluded physicians and medical thinkers until the early 20th century. In episode 4 of Nutrition History From Parts Unknown, we're delving into history's many zany theories on why scurvy occurred, how to treat it, and why it took so long for science to come around to the reality that scurvy was a disease resulting from a lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and the vitamin found found therein.