[191] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: this whole B-12 thing.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Piekos)
Thu Oct 6 22:33:04 1994
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Oct 1994 22:15:50 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 22:32:08 EDT
From: Ed Piekos <espiekos@MIT.EDU>
Wendy wrote:
>3. Sometimes B-12 can be found in the skins of vegetables (I'm not sure which
>however) if they are not thoroughly scoured and peeled and sanitized before
>eating. I remember something about B-12 being in the dirt or something and
>a little dirt never hurt anyone....
The same thing goes with the B-12 in tempeh: there tends to be much more if
the tempeh is made in, say, Indonesia than here because we are just too
darned sanitary.
I guess bacteria make B-12. The bacteria in our gut manufacture it, in fact,
but downstream of the place where it is absorbed. Design flaw?
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