# How Did This Guy Not Get Scurvy (Eskimo Diet Q.)?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-guy-not-get-scurvy-eskimo-diet-q/512704 "2009-10-05T18:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![IAmNotSpartacus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IAmNotSpartacus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IAmNotSpartacus)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-guy-not-get-scurvy-eskimo-diet-q/512704/21 "2009-10-18T04:18:30Z")

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> [@barbitu8](#):
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> Good wet cat food actually do not contain grains. I feed the neighborhood cat (“Harry”) Fancy Feast’s Medley. It’s not cheap (74 cents a can); there are mor expensive brands more scientifically made (so they say), but Harry won’t eat them. Medley (turkey Florentine with garden greens) contains in descending order: poultry broth, turkey, **wheat gluten** , liver, meat by-products, spinach, **corn starch-modified** , artificial and natural flavors, salt, calcium phosphate, **soy protein concentrate** , added color, potassium chloride, taurine, choline fluoride, vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin A supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, pyrodoxine hydrochloride, niacin, vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, menadione sodium sulfite complex, vitamin D-3 supplement, folic acid, potassium iodide, and biotin.

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