Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day agoSauerkraut!
And lots of other fermented products. Possiblities are endless, chances of success are high.
I was also thinking dried fruit/berries, but I’m not sure how well that preserves vitamin C.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Drying can work to a degree if it’s cold, but it really depends on how you dry it since vitamin c is water soluble. Anything heat dried is out. And modern sauerkraut is pasturized so that’s pretty useless for vitamin C. Finally canned preserves are canned under high heat. These industrial processes are a major reason why scurvy was so hard to treat at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Nobody could figure it out because they kept heat treating potential solutions.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
Thanks, you make good points. I was thinking about basically room dried berries, not in an oven, not in the sun.
Not where I live!