Genuinely curious I have been seeing some nutrition stuff that made me start questioning why I eat processed foods and junk food for pleasure and whats really in it for me other than dopamine boost with candies, for example. Now I’m wondering about what I’m asking in the title.
Most people here are, correctly, pointing out that going fully vegan easily gets all your required nutrients except for B12. However, this is a mostly solved problem because while “naturally” humans would get it through consumption of animal products it’s synthesized via bacteria and it’s currently produced at scale via genetically modified strains, such as Propionibacterium Freudenreichii, and used to fortify things like plant based milks and nutritional yeast.
It is something to be aware of, but it’s also not the problem many on this thread are trying to paint it as.
Thanks :) I don’t think I ever had a nutritional yeast so I definitely will try to look for it or try to learn how to make my own, do you happen to know how these plant-based milks and/or nutritional yeasts get fortified with Vitamin B12?
Nutritional yeast is sold at lots of grocery stores, especially organic ones.
And it’s delicious. I add it to most food I cook. Many folks also use it as the base for vegan cheese.
I can’t answer your vitamin question, but I thought this would help.
Thanks :)
Fungi and bacteria are sources of B12, neither are classified as animals (or plants). So mushrooms and fermented plants.
Check online for guides, and ferment your own cabbage, then see what else you can make.
Or buy pills that have B12 in them
Thanks :)
There’s multiple ways, but as an example in a similar way as nutritional yeast is made by growing a microorganism such as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae and then extracting the products. B12 is made by growing an organism like Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and extracting and seperating those products.
You then mix the B12 from the Freudenreichii with the inactivated[dead] Cerevisiae.
Thanks :)