Molly: - People seem to forget that the potato provides us with a large per cent of our vitamin C intake. Fred: - I know they do. I imagine it's because it's such a basic, ordinary vegetable. Molly: - Could be. But the amount of vitamin C it provides is very important. Did you know that scurvy was unknown in Ireland up to the time of the potato blight of the 1840s? Fred: - ----