Cook ensured he had a variety of vitamin-C rich foods on board ship. These foods included sauerkraut (pickled cabbage), lime juice, malt wort and a plant known as Cook's scurvy grass (Lepidium oleraceum).
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Scurvy is a condition caused by lack of Vitamin C; it is not a
disease.
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A disease known as scurvy is caused by a vitamin c
deficiency