Why the crew survived in The Story of Vitamin C .

Christopher Columbus was one of the great Italian navigators of the 16th century, and he often led his fleet to sail and sail on expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean At that time, seafaring life was not only very difficult, but also full of dangers The crew could only eat black bread and salted fish on board The most terrible thing is that during the voyage, it is easy to get a strange disease, the patient first feels weak, unable to walk, and then will bleed all over the body, and then slowly die The crew called this strange disease "the god of the sea" At one point, the fleet set off again Soon, the "god of the sea" It came quietly The fleet had only sailed less than half of the distance, and more than a dozen crew members had already fallen ill Looking at the vast sea around him, Columbus's heart was very heavy In order not to drag everyone down, the seriously ill crew members said to Columbus: "Captain, you can send us to the nearby island of panic When you return from the voyage, we will transport our bodies back to our hometown Columbus nodded with tears in his eyes. A few months have passed, and Columbus's fleet has finally returned victoriously The ship is getting closer and closer to the island of panic where the seriously ill crew members are, and Columbus's mood is getting heavier and heavier The success of this expedition was bought with the lives of more than a dozen crew members!

Columbus thought so, and the ship had already docked at the end of the day At this moment, a dozen unkempt men rushed from the island like the sea Aren't these the crews? They are alive! Columbus asked, surprised and delighted

How did you survive? "When we came to the island, we quickly ate all the food you left behind, and then, when we were hungry, we had to pick some wild fruits to eat, so that we could survive day by day." Is it secret in the wild fruits? As soon as Columbus returned to Italy, he told the doctors about the miracle of the resurrection of these crew members Later, after research, people found that wild fruits and some other fruits and vegetables contained a stubbornness called vitamin C, and it was vitamin C that saved the lives of those crew members It turned out that the so-called "fierce god of the sea" was "scurvy", which was caused by a long-term lack of vitamin C in the human body When the body was supplemented with an appropriate amount of vitamin C, scurvy was cured

Alas, it's vitamins, because they can't eat vegetables and other things that can supplement vitamins for a long time, as for what, it's either tomatoes or carrots.

Because Columbus put them on a desert island, there were wild fruits on the desert island, which were rich in vitamin C and cured them of scurvy.