Nutrient to Know: Vitamin B12 by Dana Angelo White in Nutrients to Know, June 5, 2012
- Milk: there's vitamin B 12 in there.
There are a lot of misconceptions about this vitamin. Get the facts about B-12.
What is it?
Less commonly known as “cobalamin” this water-soluble vitamin is almost always found in multi-vitamins and B-complex supplements. Unlike most other water-soluble vitaminss, B-12 requires stomach acid for absorption. It’s also stored within the body for many years, unlike others like riboflavin and thiamin that are quickly passed in the urine.
Why is it good for you?
Your body needs B-12 to help form DNA, to build your nervous system and keep red blood cells healthy. Since the body likes to store B-12, large amounts of supplements are often not necessary – there’s just one catch. B-12 is mostly found in animal products, so folks that follow a long-term vegan diet might need to consider a daily supplement. Since you need stomach acid for absorption, your ability to break it down decreases with age. Folks who take a lots of antacids will also need to up their intake to make sure they’re getting enough.
Where can you find it?
The daily requirement for B-12 is 6 micrograms per day and it can be found in all kinds of foods including daily, meat, fish, eggs and fortified breakfast cereals.
B12-Rich Foods
3-ounces cooked clams = 84 micrograms (1400%)
3-ounces cooked salmon = 5 micrograms (83%)
1 cup fortified cereal (such as bran flakes ) = 1.5 milligrams (25%)
1 cup low fat (1%) milk = 1.2 micrograms (20%)
1 ounce Swiss cheese = 0.9 micrograms (15%)
1 large egg 0.6 micrograms (10%)
3-ounces cooked turkey breast = 0.3 micrograms (5%)
-
More posts from Dana Angelo White.
Title…
[...]please pay a visit to the websites we follow, which includes this one, because it represents our picks from the web[...]…
Title…
[...]please stop by the internet sites we follow, such as this 1, because it represents our picks in the web[...]…
Check this out…
[...] that is the end of this article. Here you’ll find some sites that we think you’ll appreciate, just click the links over[...]……
Title…
[...]Here are a number of the internet sites we advocate for our visitors[...]…
Title…
[...]the time to study or check out the content or sites we’ve linked to beneath the[...]…
Title…
[...]the time to read or pay a visit to the content or sites we’ve linked to beneath the[...]…
Title…
[...]the time to study or stop by the material or web sites we have linked to beneath the[...]…
Title…
[...]very handful of internet websites that occur to be detailed beneath, from our point of view are undoubtedly properly worth checking out[...]…
Title…
[...]very couple of internet websites that happen to become in depth beneath, from our point of view are undoubtedly nicely worth checking out[...]…
Title…
[...]check beneath, are some completely unrelated sites to ours, however, they are most trustworthy sources that we use[...]…