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Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it IRL

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The one nutrient I for sure know vegans lack should be Vitamin A, since it’s not found in plants and the body has this weird thing of "the more beta carotene it converts into Vitamin A, the less effective it gets“ making it impossible to get the minimum recommended amount of it - and vitamin A deficiency could lead to depression.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think its possible you meant b12? Its not found naturally in anything besides meat from my understanding but it is synthetically added in some common vegan staples like alternate milks

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, not b12. That you can get from energy drinks like Monster as well. Specifically Vitamin A since beta carotene is a precursor to vitamin A and the human body has not the capability to solely live off. I don’t remember the study, but it said that the conversion rate became lower after prolonged Viramin A absence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

https://vegfaqs.com/vegan-sources-of-vitamin-a/

I picked the first resource off duckduckgo, read through most of it and it lines up with what I had thought.

And then here is about b12:

https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/nutrients/vitamin-b12/what-every-vegan-should-know-about-vitamin-b12

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you forget about carrots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Beta carotene is not vitamin A

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I don't know where you are getting your info but vitamin A is in several vegetables, including carrots, and fruits https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-high-in-vitamin-a#vegetables