Subject: Vitamin C
Aside from these oranges, where do Japanese get Vitamin C in their diet?
I've asked my mother about this a few times, and she just looks at me as
if I'm a moron. Which maybe I am. Or maybe she's suffering rickets?
(Just kidding.)
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
> Where do Japanese get Vitamin C in their diet?
Most Japanese I have met are crazy about fruit and prefer it to
anything chocolate or baked. They have the most expensive fruit
I have ever seen, packaged in boxes with ribbons and gold foil.
In 1982, during my first trip to Japan, Ken told me the
honeydew melon cost $50 and I think it was 69 cents a pound in the US.
I am not a fruit person, and there was no descernible difference to me.
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
> Where do Japanese get Vitamin C in their diet?
Ocha - green tea - is probably a big part of Japanese
Vitamin C intake. The beverage has lots of other good
stuff in it too.
Green tea
http://www.teanet.com/te12000.htm
Green tea biochemistry
http://www.smartbasic.com/cat.herbs/green.tea.c.html
At some Nikkei gatherings it seems American coffee has
replaced green tea as the beverage of choice. This struck
me as a significant indicator of assimilation.
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
> Where do Japanese get Vitamin C in their diet?
I think the Japanese have always had mikan and yuzu another
citrus similar to lemons -- it sure shows up in a lot of the cooking.
> Maybe she's suffering rickets?
I used to think the bow-legs that many Japanese have was due
to rickets or something but found out it is from sitting Japanese-style
from a young age during the early development of the
fibula, tibia and femur (long bones of the legs).
