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Why did british soldiers eat limes?
To prevent scurvy
How do you prevention scurvy?
scurvy is a lack of vitamin c so you should eat lemons, limes and Oranges to prevent it.
Which herbs helped prevent scurvy and malaria?
Lemons, limes, oranges and citrus fruits help prevent scurvy. A commonly used cure and prevention for malaria is boiled horsetail and carnuckles.
Where does the british term limey come from?
Sailors used to eat limes to prevent scurvy, they became known as Limeys.
Which treatments worked to prevent scurvy?
Anything with vitamin C. The English are known as limeys because they brought large amounts of limes on board their ships, these limes had a lot of vitamin C which prevents scurvy. BTW scurvy is a vitamin deficiency, so the best treatment for any vitamin deficiency is to give the person that vitamin.
What food prevent scurvy?
Any food that has vitamin C. Near the top of the list are citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, limes, etc.)
What did British sailors eat to prevent scurvy?
British sailors ate citrus fruits like lemons and limes to prevent scurvy, as these fruits are rich in vitamin C. The vitamin C helped to combat the vitamin deficiency that caused scurvy during long sea voyages.
Scurvy how can it be treated?
Scurvy can be healed by boiling cedar to make medicine. The Aboriginals taught Jaques Cartier how to heal scurvy. The aboriginals had limes that cured scurvy. After that sea captains knew how to cure scurvy and called limes: limeys. But now in this time we call them limes.
Where does the term lymies come from?
When sailors went on long journies they would get scurvy from lack of vitamin C. to prevent this, they ate limes while on the ship.
Is lime good for yoru health?
Limes are good for your health because they are high in vitamin C. They can also help prevent scurvy and contain folate.
How do you treat scurvy in Tudor times?
Scurvy was often treated with the ingestion of fresh limes which were given to those people on transatlantic crossings. This is why people from USA brand people from the UK as "Limey's"
Scurvy how it can be treatad?
lemon and limes as well as other very acidic fruits rich with vitamin C deposits can help the conditions of Scurvy
