Why didn’t the Mongols get scurvy? (Nutrition throughout history)

The thought came to mind. Sailors got scurvy from a vitamin C deficiency. So they brought limes/lemons and other citrus fruits

but... the Mongolians... they were steppe nomans who ate mainly goats, sheep, and the milk those animals produce. Or can you find vitamin C in things asides from fruits?

Or was disease such a 'common' thing as to not be worth mention?

 

Dutch sailors used sour kraut.

Ah, tumeric, and you can keep that, and boil it with dried rice or pretty much anything, excellent stuff for on the go.

I often boil rice with tumeric, throw in some shredded coconut and you've got Indonesian style rice, goes well with coconut milk based curries, and looks lovley with that colour.
True about the nutrients, also many spices and herbs have been linked to all sorts of things, tumeric for example is suspected to play a role in recovering from heart attacks, garlic is suppsed to do something, forgot what, st. John's wort, or rather, an extract there from, is used as an anti-depressant, and so on.
Seems a few aspects of traditional herbal lore weren't that far off, now if only mainstream science were to take a serious look, so that we could reclaim it all from the charlatans and psuedo-doctors who exploit the gulible.

Curious,

In many of the nomadic tribes I think they got many of their vitamins from eating liver; raw liver has quite a bit of vitamin C.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C