> except for fairly straightforward things like "eat vitamin C or you will get scurvy". Even that's a myth, funnily enough. You don't need ascorbic acid per se

> except for fairly straightforward things like "eat vitamin C or you will get scurvy". Even that's a myth, funnily enough. You don't need ascorbic acid per se, you just need.. ascorbate. With the acid we can synthesize the ascorbate our cells can work with. But we can also eat it directly pre-formed by other herbivores, contained in medium-rare meats or not-cremated-for-hours livers, or soft-boiled egg yolks etc.