Edit: the hypothetical diet wouldn’t be pure skittles, it’s just replacing rice/pasta/bread/etc. with skittles and still getting the proper protein and fiber

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    That isn’t really any better than the other link, it’s pretty hard to be vitamin-deficient enough to e.g. develop scurvy even if you eat only junkfood (AFAIK even french fries contain some amount of vitamin C, and most burgers have raw lettuce and tomato). Early Sailors ate literally nothing but bread (hard tack), cured meat and perhaps fish for months at a time.