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In reply to the discussion: Rickety Woo [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)61. As I pointed out in my post vitamin C becomes unstable in water
and is destroyed by boiling, it is not particularly vulnerable to being denatured by contact with metals.
To repeat, personally I think that vitamin E deficiency might have occurred and vitamin E is destroyed by contact with metals but, and it is a big but, it is not water soluble. It might be that boiling is needed to mobilise the vitamin E within the bark but there problem with that is that the known cure for this type of sickness - called Rabbit Starvation - is eating fat obtained from a non-lean animal like an elk, beaver, porcupine or otter.
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in my discipline we make a strong distinction between science and natural history...
mike_c
Jan 2014
#34
One would think that it would be redundant to tell the "politically liberal" posters in DU to
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#12
The problem I see is that a small group has decided that they can make the decision
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#25
As I pointed out, it was not necessarily boiled, and minimal amounts can survive to cure scurvy. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2014
#62
I did read, which is why I responded the way I did. Where is the OP?
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2014
#66
OP = Original Poster. If you read my post that would have been clear to you.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2014
#68
Having an open mind has not a DAMN THING to do with whether something is 'woo'.
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2014
#38
There's nothing about that story that was unscientific. Various variables were considered and
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#48