Assertion: diet | /r/CapableOf | consist endemic neuritis
Facets:
value: almost entirely
type: DEGREE
value: of white rice
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In the early 1880s, Kanehiro Takaki observed that Japanese sailors (whose diets consisted almost entirely of white rice) developed beriberi (or endemic neuritis, a disease causing heart problems and paralysis), but British sailors and Japanese naval officers did not.