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Originally Posted by Olefin
keep in mind there are all kinds of things you can eat (just watch Man Vs. Wild or Survivorman to see what I mean) that people dont think of normally - I am betting that a lot of starving people would walk right by things that they dont know are edible
for instance cattails are very very common here in the US - and you get more edible starch from them then you do potatoes - and have eaten them myself
another is burdocks - we used to eat them all the time - to most its a weed but in western NY you can find lots of people eating them
and dandelions make one very good salad
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Hammering on regarding Vitamin C sources: 100 grams of orange fruit contains about 71mg of Vitamin C; while 100 grams of orange peel contains about 131mg of vitamin C and can be dried and ground for future use (in the dark days of nuclear winter). If any orange or citrus fruit is still in production in the South, they could be shipping jars of ground orange peel north as a trade good.
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