Not really. The concern is the access in diet variety. The person in the screenshot can easily go out and get something they’re craving. Not true for midevil persons.
Much like today, that’s dependent on your current liquidity… I’m sure you could pop by the nearby inn or market and grab whatever striked your fancy if you could afford it.
Even a king couldn’t get sound nutrition by today’s standards throughout most of history, simply because of availability. There just weren’t much of any fruit and vegetables in the winter. Even when I was poor I could still get mixed frozen vegetables whenever I wanted (well, 0700-1900 Mo-Sa) for like 3€/kg. Sure, there’s food deserts today, but it surely isn’t as widespread an issue as it used to be.
It is definitely also a question of quality. Not just because the concept of food safety was non-existant back then, but if we are talking about a really poor person, the bread and cheese (and mostly there would be no cheese at all) would be stale, the wine full of dregs, but watered down so much that they would barely be able to taste how vinegary it was.
Not really. The concern is the access in diet variety. The person in the screenshot can easily go out and get something they’re craving. Not true for midevil persons.
Much like today, that’s dependent on your current liquidity… I’m sure you could pop by the nearby inn or market and grab whatever striked your fancy if you could afford it.
Okay, yes, there’s always an edge case.
Even a king couldn’t get sound nutrition by today’s standards throughout most of history, simply because of availability. There just weren’t much of any fruit and vegetables in the winter. Even when I was poor I could still get mixed frozen vegetables whenever I wanted (well, 0700-1900 Mo-Sa) for like 3€/kg. Sure, there’s food deserts today, but it surely isn’t as widespread an issue as it used to be.
It is definitely also a question of quality. Not just because the concept of food safety was non-existant back then, but if we are talking about a really poor person, the bread and cheese (and mostly there would be no cheese at all) would be stale, the wine full of dregs, but watered down so much that they would barely be able to taste how vinegary it was.