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Despite eating citrus most days, I developed scurvy as a result of dietary malabsorption. Now I have to take vitamin C supplements (among others).
Yarrr
Was the citrus lacking vitamin C, or were you unable to absorb it for some reason?
Unable to absorb it. Chronic diarrhea has led me to have all kinds of nutritional deficiencies.
I can't imagine growing citrus that was so utterly lacking in vitamin C as to cause scurvy. It takes very little.