On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:17:00 -0400, Jim Carter
wrote:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:44:19 -0500, zxcvbob wrote in
rec.gardens.edible:

I havn't figured out where vegans and other strict orthodox vegetarians get
their vitamin B12.

What foods provide vitamin B12?


See: http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/b12.htm#reliable

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Reliable Vegan Sources of Vitamin B12

A number of reliable vegan food sources for vitamin B12 are
known. One brand of nutritional yeast, Red Star T-6635+, has
been tested and shown to contain active vitamin B12.

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The RDA (which includes a safety factor) for adults for
vitamin B12 is 2.4 micrograms daily [4]. 2.4 micrograms of
vitamin B12 are provided by a little less than 1 Tablespoon
of Vegetarian Support Formula (Red Star T-6635+) nutritional
yeast. A number of the recipes in this book contain
nutritional yeast.

Another source of vitamin B12 is fortified cereal. We
recommend checking the label of your favorite cereal since
manufacturers have been known to stop including vitamin B12.

Other sources of vitamin B12 are vitamin B12-fortified soy
milk, vitamin B12-fortified meat analogues (food made from
wheat gluten or soybeans to resemble meat, poultry or fish),
and vitamin B12 supplements. There are vitamin supplements
which do not contain animal products.

Vegans who choose to use a vitamin B12 supplement, either as
a single supplement or in a multi-vitamin should use
supplements at least several times a week. Even though a
supplement may contain many times the recom-mended level of
vitamin B12, when vitamin B12 intake is high, not as much
appears to be absorbed. This means in order to meet your
needs, you should take the vitamin several times a week.

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Pat