Title: Ten Best Vitamin B12 Vegan Food Sources and Supplements – Superfoodly
Headings: Ten Best Vitamin B12 Vegan Food Sources and Supplements
Ten Best Vitamin B12 Vegan Food Sources and Supplements
Do plants have B12?
Does this prove veganism is unnatural/unhealthy?
Today’s plant-based sources
Deficiency = dangerous
Overdose?
10 vegan foods high in B12
1. Nutritional yeast
2. Nori/dried purple laver
3. Tempeh
4. Some mushrooms
5. Chlorella
6. Almond milk
7. Cereal
8. Veggie burgers/sausages
9. Supplements
10. Multivitamins

Content: “…is the most suitable Vitamin B12 source for vegetarians presently available. Consumption of approximately 4 g of dried purple laver (Vitamin B12 content: 77.6 µg /100 g dry weight) supplies the RDA of 2.4 µg/day.” Critics say that it’s a pseudo-form of B12 not as bioavailable to humans like the animal-derived cobalamin form. Watanabe and his team counter with years of research saying it is. The USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference does not contain an entry for nori/dried purple laver, at least as of the most recent version which is the 28th edition. They do have an entry for this: “ 11446, Seaweed, laver, raw” and that lists zero B12 content ( 6 ). It’s not clear whether the USDA’s entry for laver is the same or different than the purple variety. Since it does not specify purple, we would assume it is green laver but that is only a guess since it doesn’t specify either color.