Voyages of exploration which stretched from 1492 to 1504 started with what purpose?

Question

What did Captain James Cook take on his sea voyages, as experience had taught him that it was an effective preventative of scurvy (containing vitamin C and lactobacilli)?

Answer 1

To find a new and shorter route from Portugal to the Orient
They were four voyages by Christopher Columbus. Although eventually the voyages were financed by Spain and not by Portugal, Columbus's original proposal was to King John II of Portugal and was aimed at the Portuguese objectives of finding a shorter trading route to the Orient.