A University of New Mexico study claimed that corn was essential with beans and rice. This was some sort of enzyme that improved the overall nutrition of this trio. I have a printout... somewhere and I'll try to put a link here. Thanks, great information.

“The simplest and least expensive way to make sure that you, your family and neighbors do not suffer or die post-attack from scurvy is to buy one kilogram (1,000,000 milligrams) of pure vitamin C, which is the crystalline “ascorbic acid” from. Unlike vitamin C tablets, pure vitamin C crystals do not deteriorate.” Cresson H.Kearny, Nuclear War Survival Skills, 1987.

Great info - thank you for putting it together - another solution for vitamin C is the old space drink - TANG 8oz (2 tsp of powder in 8 oz of water) provides 100% of RDA Vitamin C

No one food contains everything. But beans and rice covers a lot. The rest you can grow in your back yard.

I'm so glad you've started this conversation about food, health and food storage. Thumbs up! I consider piling up the beans, rice and mass-produced canned food as a thoughtless, knee jerk, ape-ish response to the challenge of disaster/hardship planning. Yes, beans and rice are cheap; they store well, and they can serve as daily staple assuming you don't have related sensitivity and intolerances. But beans, rice and mass-produced, processed can foods are just a small baby step in disaster and hardship planning. I've seen rural and urban poverty overseas, first hand, and they all do a lot more than beans and rice. They often have a strong knowledge of local plants and their uses. For example. The elderly in high rent neighborhoods of downtown Bucharest, a bustling capital city, lacking income and social services, use potatoes, carrots and cabbage as their staple and supplement with "weeds" growing between the cracks in the concrete. They also take the bus to go outside of the city to gather other plants in the forest and fields. Ultimately, real food is more important than cool gear. We need to know what is real food, how to grow or find it, and how to prepare it. And how to store it. Preferably sans microwaves and shiny, stainless steel refrigerators. :P On another note, most biohackers (Mercola, John Bergman, Dr. Axe, et al.) advocate 2,000 mg of easily digesting, organic-based Vitamin C per day. Again, glad you started this and I hope to see more from you on this topic.

I’m so impressed by this video! So helpful as well

Beans and rice are a great base so stocking up with a lot of it is useful. Also I have never ever heard of anybody planning on eating just beans and rice and surviving.

I tell you i have been eating it my whole life and where there wasent any meat rice and beans where more than enough and modesty a side we Puerto Ricans make the best rice and beans handa down! It is very feeling!

we supplement with a decent garden we grow greens ,peppers , potatoes , tomatoes and we have several blue berry and black berry plants growing

I think the biggest concern people overlook when it comes to beans and rice is the fact to make them digestible you need a fairly significant amount of water just to eat them, and if you want to do anything receipe wise you have to rinse and drain them and cook them in about 3x their volume in water.

Strongly advise adding a few bottles of multivitamins repackaged in Mylar to supplement staples like beans and rice

Excellent video with some fantastic information. It surprises me as to how many people actually think you can survive off beans and rice. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Great video. I store lemon juice but pine needle tea is easy enough up here. Rice and beans is a good base layer in the Prepper Pyramid. Pineapple, etc are acidic so store those tins separately as they will leak after a few years. Mainly I plan to grow peppers and dehydrate them for the winter season.

Yes

Great information, thank you for sharing!

Excellent video! In Scandinavia potatoes have been an excellent source of Vit-C for hundreds of years. Also the indigenous forest berries. both are pretty easy to process and store. potatoes can be dried or stored in a cold cellar. We puck berries each year, then turn the berries into juice concentrate for storage. thanks for sharing STN

excellent video. I actually keep vitamins in my storage which I rotate, but I've also got dehydrate vegetables and fruits in my storage as well as Tang, powdered and canned milk, sprouting seeds and oatmeal. Rabbit starvation might also be a concern.

my friend not only finished med school, she also was accepted into a residency consuming mainly rice and beans as her staple for all those years, so yes you can.

Well thought out and clear - thank you! I'd read years ago that 'complete' nutrition was possible by eating potatoes, milk and eggs. Never researched to see if true, if the vitamin c was included.

Pine needle tea "Long straw"

Outstanding information. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for that info , a need to know for sure !

I bought a LOT of Uncle Ben's converted rice bags and then didn't package them up but left them in their original bags. A lot of rice "expired" in 2014 and now smells really strong. I am too cheap not to use it so I soak the heck out of it and do lots of rinsing so it tastes like it should. I'm undoubtedly rinsing away the Vitamin B that is put on the rice to enrich it. Thank you for this information.

Rest assured, if my lips start bleeding; my personality is sure to change....

This is incredible advice and info, thank you so much for your research and knowledge!!

I eat red and brown rice along with beans

I love edible weeds and pine needle tea! Also get sprouting seeds, like mung beans, broccoli, and alfalfa. Sprout a teaspoon of seeds a day per person and eat them raw. A half-cup of mung bean sprouts contains 7 mg of Vitamin C.

Both Pinto beans and Lentils have Vitamin C in them. They aren't sufficient to get your daily minimum, but eating them regularly will definitely prevent Vitamin C deficiency from arising for quite some time. You could probably make it 6 months to a year without much in the way of supplementation. But your tip on Pine needle tea was a good one. Just one good cup of that per month would pretty much do away with your Vitamin C deficiency, if you had a good full diet of lentils and enriched white rice. I prefer lentils over beans, and so I store lentils more than any other type of legume. Good information!

very interesting!

dandelions are rich in vitamin "C"

Well that explains everything now my wife has had Skurvy for 20 years with her mood swings.

In my prep meals I use dehydrated potatoes for vitamin c.

Pine needles have a shit ton of vitamin C... So rice, beans, and pine, needles!

Just planted a Norway Spruce in our yard. Should SHTF, remember all spruce trees are edible. Easy to pick a few needles and brew a tea. Not all pines are safe but Spruce is safe. My theory is, because they are painful to touch, spruce has no reason to use chemicals to deter predators.

Augason Farms has a sale on their red/ green freeze dried bell peppers, 50% off on Amazon right now. Great info here on vit C options in the wild!

Good video. I'm in the process of redoing my emergency food storage

Excellent video. Wild plant recognition is an amazing skill but very peculiar to the environment. Where I grew-up, I could recognize those plants with absolute certainty because that knowledge had been passed on to me by elders at a very young age. Where I live now, I hardly recognize anything and I find it very hard to find local people that recognize those plants simply because no one imparted that knowledge to them growing-up. People just pop a pill and move on. No one makes a tea to cure a headache or to stop diarrhea or to make an astringent mouth wash.

I think they mean beans and rice are good to fill your stomach in an emergency situation.

Thank you so much for this informative video 👍🏻

You could live off beans and rice but as you have pointed out the body would suffer. The unheathy amounts of weight lose as well as strength leaves the body susceptible to illnesses. I keep proteins and other sources of vitamins in my diet to avoid this. Excellent content. The table you have presented is very informative information. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it immensely.:)

I have a million cans of Sweet Peas & Whole Kernel Corn, both have Vitamin C.

terrific information, honestly something I never thought about. My concern is shelf life. As much as I like to can I would think C tablets would last longer if stored properly and take up less room than drying and canning fruit. Also with hubby being diabetic he cannot do the sugars, especially if shtf. he has a small surplus of some meds but he is on several, and would have to be super careful, hoping the shtf event was short term, if long term dunno what has will do =(

Thankyou

Wow so great info Love you!!!

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Why do I have a lot of symptoms of Scurvy?.......hummm.

good info

If there is no gas or electric, you can't cook beans (2-2.5 hours) very easily. Easy to store, extremely difficult to cook.

great video, I keep multi vitamins in storage to help when the pickings are slim. Here is a video request; food storage items for a diabetic. she complains about what I store but doesn't put forth an effort to help with what food she desires. I basically tell her if she doesn't help then she will die.

Well I actually had to live on just this food for two solid weeks and I don't ever want to see another grain of rice again in my life! You start to feel different when just taking in the same food day after day, two or 3 times per day.

sprout your beans and seeds.Walla,vitamin c as well as lots of other vitamins

I think I could survive on bean with bacon soup.

i eat them with peppers, full of vitamin c

Not without Tabasco sauce ! .... and a cheap multi vitamin / minerals takes care of a lot ... you don't need mega doses of anything.

While I admit beans and rice alone are not an ideal diet, the information about vitamin C I don't believe is accurate. I can personally attest that two months without any food containing vitamin C will not give you scurvy. This last week I had a physical and blood test which showed me to be very healthy excellent levels on my lipids Etc. Oh, and by the way that was after 45 days of water fasting, 5 days of beef and butter only, and another two days of water fasting.

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literally no one said you should get vitamin C from rice lmao

You should have made this vitamin c

You would be a fool to ONLY store beans and rice without also storing multi vitamins, meat and veggies!

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So buy a bottle of vitamin C

You know what has vitamin C? Human liver... LOL. Just put multi vitamins in you preps. Most people have a shit load of vitamins in their house.

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Duh take a vitamin C then eat beans and rice

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Has nothing to do with beans.

Oops I infected my food supply with le coronavirus

This is just BAD

I think I've got scurvy I'm tired of this afro blah hahaha

Easy solution - just eat vegetarian food from North India/Pakistan. It's the healthiest food the world has to offer and the tastiest.