Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
splendoruranium@infosec.pub 7 months agoYour body only needs tiny amounts of Vitamin C and you can easily store fruit like apples for more than half a year without refrigeration.
I think the record I’ve seen apples last without refrigeration was two months, three maybe with a fridge. They were shriveled and slimy and gross but still edible. Not sure how well the C preserved, apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.
Citrus is a bit less long lasting, either drying out or succumbing to mold.
apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.
Yeah, I’ll concede that.
But again, long storage is not just feasible but relatively trivial - a cool basement, harvest before ripe, many months of apples to be had. Maybe it depends on the cultivar? Either way, for most of human existence in seasonally cold climates, storage simply was the only way for having access to fruit during winter and early spring.
Preserving has been an option for much of our history and it works much better than just storage.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 months ago
On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.
splendoruranium@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Huh, “sailors” indeed. I can honestly say that I hadn’t noticed this was about boats up until now.