...hard to swallow...

From researching food knowledges and myths in everyday life, their histories, and the extent to which we internalize them in our relationships with food, I find this, "a modern bit of disinformation created by British propagandists during World War II":

"To help conceal the fact that their night fighter pilots were being guided by newly invented radar equipment, the British claimed they had improved their pilots' eyesight by having them eat raw carrots". - Leon Rappaport, How We Eat

!!!

Unbelievable. All this time, it was never true. You have all been lied to!