Vitamin Trivia
January 1st, 2015 at 6:29:14 AM
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Of the following, which has the most and least vitamin C? For extra credit, rank them correctly.
*one cup of buttermilk
*one cup apple juice
*one cup sauerkraut
*one cup cranberry juice
no looking it up!
please use spoiler cover to answer
*one cup of buttermilk
*one cup apple juice
*one cup sauerkraut
*one cup cranberry juice
no looking it up!
please use spoiler cover to answer
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 1st, 2015 at 7:59:28 AM
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Quote: odiousgambitOf the following, which has the most and least vitamin C? For extra credit, rank them correctly.
*one cup of buttermilk
*one cup apple juice
*one cup sauerkraut
*one cup cranberry juice
no looking it up!
please use spoiler cover to answer
I will try it like this? sauerkraut, cranberry, apple, buttermilk, good luck finding pure cranberry juice...
January 1st, 2015 at 11:22:36 AM
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I forget how to use the spoiler, but I will agree 100% with petroglyph, that was my ranking as well.
A falling knife has no handle.
January 1st, 2015 at 11:41:18 AM
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Quote: MoscaI forget how to use the spoiler, but I will agree 100% with petroglyph, that was my ranking as well.
I've never used it. Can someone give a quick tutorial?
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
January 1st, 2015 at 11:46:49 AM
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Quote: MoscaI forget how to use the spoiler, but I will agree 100% with petroglyph, that was my ranking as well.
That's funny, you made me look to see what I wrote.
To post a "spoiler",
Use half a bracket [ and write the word spoiler, then the other half bracket ] then your message, when done do first half bracket [ add a backslash / write the word "spoiler" add the second half of a bracket ] voila. I always do the preview afterwards before posting these to see if I screwed up?
It is also shown at the bottom of this pale blue box when typing in a message where it says "Click here for formatting codes".
January 1st, 2015 at 11:55:13 AM
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In other words...
[spoiler]This is a spoiler[/spoiler]
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To replace the default "Show Spoiler" text with something else:
[spoiler=New Spoiler Text]This is also a spoiler[/spoiler]
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This is a spoiler
To replace the default "Show Spoiler" text with something else:
[spoiler=New Spoiler Text]This is also a spoiler[/spoiler]
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January 1st, 2015 at 12:49:40 PM
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so far answer slightly wrong, I will give answers after more have had a chance [along with source]
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 1st, 2015 at 5:54:42 PM
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Quote: odiousgambitso far answer slightly wrong, I will give answers after more have had a chance [along with source]
source? if we're not looking things up how do we quote a source? lol...
sauerkraut, cranberry, buttermilk, apple
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
January 1st, 2015 at 6:34:19 PM
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Quote: beachbumbabssource? if we're not looking things up how do we quote a source? lol...
well, I should back up what I will provide as "correct", no?
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 1st, 2015 at 9:35:53 PM
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Ah, I read the source as modifying the "more" not the "I". Yes, I'll be interested in hearing.
But likely not increasing sauerkraut or buttermilk production as a result. They have these pills....
But likely not increasing sauerkraut or buttermilk production as a result. They have these pills....
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
January 1st, 2015 at 9:45:47 PM
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And if you let those pills sit around on a cupboard shelf for awhile you get a very UNhealthy pill indeed. See Journal of Educational Chemistry volume 1946.Quote: beachbumbabsThey have these pills....
Many exotic fruit societies promote some fruit from the arctic or from the tropics that has ten times the vitamin c of oranges or some such advantage but the market place seems to not be as favorable as consumers think.
Scurvy amongst sailors was not so much the absence of vitamin C but the presence of rancid fats in their diet.
The preventative (lemons, limes, etc.) took a heck of a long time to be adopted amidst considerable opposition.
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:30:13 AM
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Quote: FleaStiffScurvy amongst sailors was not so much the absence of vitamin C but the presence of rancid fats in their diet.
that made me think of another good vitamin trivia Q, but first:
#1 cranberry juice
#2 sauerkraut
#3 buttermilk
#4 apple juice
#1 is to be expected, the rest might be a surprise.
sources: I got these by doing a simple google entry of "vitamin C" then adding a product; doing it exactly this way opens up some kind of prepared google information. Links below. For cranberry juice, you can get different answers, probably because it is indeed usually diluted, and this is not made clear. The one that comes up in the link is the lowest I ran into.
It's cool about buttermilk. As for sauerkraut, they knew about this in yesteryear. Apple juice may be wonderful stuff, but not for vitamin C. Citrus juices are consistently good for that, and apples aren't citrus.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vitamin+c+cranberry+juice
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vitamin+c+sauerkraut
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vitamin+c+in+buttermilk
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vitamin+c+apple+juice
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 2nd, 2015 at 5:16:54 AM
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I would say this is likely correct, but products change and different types of fruit become commercially preferred. Orange juice is usually a blend of oranges and some groves are more valuable than others simply because of the variety they chose to plant.
You can look at additives but it is often a joke. Vitamin D is stored at ambient temperatures and then added to the top of this huge vat, later trucks back up and drain the vat from the bottom. In the interim they assume the vitamin D is randomly distributed.
Look at tomatoes...commercial value is in longevity and ruggedness to withstand shipping and handling. Not in vitamin or juice content.
A good many people belong to food clubs and get products that can't be shipped interstate or can't legally be sold at all. One woman marks her product as "fish bait'' and ships it across state lines claiming her customers can pay twenty dollars a pound if they want to.
You can look at additives but it is often a joke. Vitamin D is stored at ambient temperatures and then added to the top of this huge vat, later trucks back up and drain the vat from the bottom. In the interim they assume the vitamin D is randomly distributed.
Look at tomatoes...commercial value is in longevity and ruggedness to withstand shipping and handling. Not in vitamin or juice content.
A good many people belong to food clubs and get products that can't be shipped interstate or can't legally be sold at all. One woman marks her product as "fish bait'' and ships it across state lines claiming her customers can pay twenty dollars a pound if they want to.
January 2nd, 2015 at 1:34:57 PM
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Continuing with Vitamin C
Scurvy is caused by Vitamin C deficiency
Early American/European arctic explorers were plagued with scurvy. They pondered the fact that Eskimos did not get scurvy, and some of them started imitating what the Eskimos did and successfully avoided scurvy. What was the secret?
again, use spoiler cover please
Scurvy is caused by Vitamin C deficiency
Early American/European arctic explorers were plagued with scurvy. They pondered the fact that Eskimos did not get scurvy, and some of them started imitating what the Eskimos did and successfully avoided scurvy. What was the secret?
again, use spoiler cover please
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 2nd, 2015 at 2:19:28 PM
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I read it had to do with limes which is why the English sailors were called limeys. Edit: Nevermind. No limes are growing in the arctic. Dumb guess.
I've been having a good time making my own fermented foods like sauerkraut, beet kvass and milk kefir. They taste good and I think theyre healing some severe digestive problems I was having (too much comped food and alcohol). Also been making bone broth and raw eggs yolks. I've been buying raw milk for $15 a gallon where I live.
100% risk of ruin
January 2nd, 2015 at 2:37:42 PM
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No limes don't grow in the arctic but lots of small berries do and they have eight times the vitamin C of oranges.
In summer eggs are plentiful and you can prepare salted egg yolks which later can be used as cheese.
In summer eggs are plentiful and you can prepare salted egg yolks which later can be used as cheese.
January 2nd, 2015 at 2:57:28 PM
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How about a geography question? This one is simply process of elimination.
Which US state capital's name contains none of the letters of the state's name? Do the kids still have to memorize these things? I hope not.
Which US state capital's name contains none of the letters of the state's name? Do the kids still have to memorize these things? I hope not.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:20:14 PM
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Boise Idaho?
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:28:04 PM
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No, you have the letter O in each.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
January 2nd, 2015 at 4:35:31 PM
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Pierre, South Dakota
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January 2nd, 2015 at 4:51:17 PM
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I'm better at vitamins. I even gave the citation without looking it up!
Sobering up now a bit. Will have to get people who send me wine instead of cheese.
Sobering up now a bit. Will have to get people who send me wine instead of cheese.
January 2nd, 2015 at 5:43:24 PM
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Quote: odiousgambitContinuing with Vitamin C
Scurvy is caused by Vitamin C deficiency
Early American/European arctic explorers were plagued with scurvy. They pondered the fact that Eskimos did not get scurvy, and some of them started imitating what the Eskimos did and successfully avoided scurvy. What was the secret?
again, use spoiler cover please
They needed to eat brains and seal oil
Do you think there is any validity to liposomal vitamin C??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYRIjhReC8o
January 2nd, 2015 at 6:02:49 PM
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getting 'warmer' on the Eskimo vitamin C source
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 2nd, 2015 at 6:16:56 PM
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re: Eskimos
Whale and seal blubber would do it, I think. Fat stores excess Vitamin C. Especially whale, because they eat krill, which I think are photosynthetic. But without looking it up, not sure.
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
January 2nd, 2015 at 6:23:17 PM
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Blubber and fresh meat and the like all turned out to be what was keeping the Eskimos scurvy free. BBB gets the award!
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
January 2nd, 2015 at 7:24:15 PM
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Quote: odiousgambitBlubber and fresh meat and the like all turned out to be what was keeping the Eskimos scurvy free. BBB gets the award!
Worth adding:
Cooking it burns off the vitamin C. You have to eat it raw.
Casinos are not your friends, they want your money. But so does Disneyland.
And there is no chance in hell that you will go to Disneyland and come back with more money than you went with.
- AxelWolf and Mickeycrimm
October 3rd, 2016 at 12:35:55 AM
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Cooking destroys a good many nutrients but it also can liberate them or alter them.
Garlic chopped up and cooked in olive oil is great but for breast cancer prevention letting it oxidize for about twelve minutes is best.
Tomatoes are often more nutritious cooked.
Most of our foods are cooked but here in Florida it seems vegetarian and Paleo Diet places abound where most everything is either raw or wok fried for a minute or less.
Amounts of any one micronutrient are still highly variable no matter how the food is obtained or prepared.
I went to my local Total Wine and bought their final six pack of Arctic Ale so I've done my bit to support GAP YEAR students picking Scandinavian Bilberries. The vitamin content, even of the "ale" is extremely high and good for vision, retina repair and cardiac micro-vessel repair.
Garlic chopped up and cooked in olive oil is great but for breast cancer prevention letting it oxidize for about twelve minutes is best.
Tomatoes are often more nutritious cooked.
Most of our foods are cooked but here in Florida it seems vegetarian and Paleo Diet places abound where most everything is either raw or wok fried for a minute or less.
Amounts of any one micronutrient are still highly variable no matter how the food is obtained or prepared.
I went to my local Total Wine and bought their final six pack of Arctic Ale so I've done my bit to support GAP YEAR students picking Scandinavian Bilberries. The vitamin content, even of the "ale" is extremely high and good for vision, retina repair and cardiac micro-vessel repair.
October 3rd, 2016 at 1:27:14 AM
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Quote: FleaStiff
Garlic chopped up and cooked in olive oil is great but for breast cancer prevention letting it oxidize for about twelve minutes is best.
Hear that ladies? Go ahead and stuff your faces with diet soda, dunkaroos and baked goods at the office but please, for the love of all that is good and holy, let your garlic olive oil oxidize for 12 minutes.
100% risk of ruin
October 3rd, 2016 at 1:40:57 AM
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Gee, I didn't ever advocate diet soda. Baked goods are fine depending upon the absence of dough conditioners and other chemicals. Bread has been consumed for eons. Its twinkies and wonder bread that are garbage. Dunkaroos? A new term for donuts??
