Re: B12 only from animals??
Hi,
have you seen this thread: B12: How natural is the vegan diet??
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Re: B12 only from animals??
Oh, thank you so much Korn! That was a huge help.:) What a great forum this is.
Re: B12 only from animals??
Nutritional yeast is a great way to get B12 (and lots of other B vitamins) in a natural, vegan way
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Since you're in the UK, an easy source of B12 is Marmite. Assuming you like it anyway :)
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flourchild
Nutritional yeast is a great way to get B12 (and lots of other B vitamins) in a natural, vegan way
I could be wrong but I thought I read here before that it depended on which brand you use.
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flourchild
Nutritional yeast is a great way to get B12 (and lots of other B vitamins) in a natural, vegan way
I thought it was added to the nutritional yeast?
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Marrers
I could be wrong but I thought I read here before that it depended on which brand you use.
You're right. A lot of the B12 in nutritional yest is not bio-available and therefore not much good. A weekly supplement is the best thing you can do.
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Seconding burl. There's absolutely no shame in supplementing B12, even the animals who are supposedly the best "source" are fed supplements (at least here in the US) since they don't really graze, and the unnatural diets they are fed are deficient and/or grown in depleted soil.
Find a good vegetarian supplement and take it without regret!
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Piggles
Since you're in the UK, an easy source of B12 is Marmite. Assuming you like it anyway :)
Mmmm... Marmite! Every day I have two slices of toast with lots on it! But I also supplement with SevenSeas Multi vitamins for Vegetarians and Vegans. They carry the Vegan Society logo. I thought as I was so new at this it was better to be safe than sorry!
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I think some of you may already have read this article, but let me give a link again.
Here, it is said that they have tested two separate types of laver and found there are lots of B12 in both of them.
And they had done another study in 2009, where they found that the B12 in these lavers are active. (See here)
Hope this information is useful to some of you.
Re: B12 only from animals??
Hi yeolkim, your first link doesn't seem to work.
Re: B12 only from animals??
hi, Korn, I just changed the link. Thanks.