Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
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> Well, cooked meat doesn't contain vitamin C, unlike raw meats. Plus, cooking reduces the nutrients in raw meats, in a sliding scale where boiling meats annihilates the enzymes and bacteria along with some of the vitamins and minerals, while harsher cooking methods do much worse damage.
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Cooked meat does contain trace amounts of vitamin C.  You only need 
copious amount of C if you are eating carbohydrates.