Vitamin B12-containing plant food sources for vegetarians

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1861-1873

  Watanabe, Fumio ^a   Yabuta, Yukinori ^a   Bito, Tomohiro ^a   Teng, Fei ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cobalamin; Dried purple laver; Nori

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; ORGANIC FERTILIZER; IRON INTAKE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ALGA; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DAIRY PRODUCT; EDIBLE MUSHROOM; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT VEGETABLE; HUMAN; HYDROPONICS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PLANT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VEGETARIAN DIET; AGARICALES; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; IRON INTAKE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEAWEED; VEGETABLE;

AGARICALES; DIET, VEGETARIAN; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEAWEED; VEGETABLES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84899870604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6051861     Document Type: Review

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