About Vitamin B12

Functions

  • Maintain healthy nerve cells
  • Maintain healthy red blood cells
  • Needed to make DNA
  • Normal folate metabolism, intracellular folate storage
  • DNA, RNA synthesis
  • Methionine sinthesis
  • Blood clotting

Recommended Dietary Allowance(Female in 20's, healty, non-pregnant)

  • 2.4mcg

Selected foods on the list are high or realtively high in vitamin B12

Beef

Beef liver

Catfish

Chicken

Clam

Cod

Cottage cheese

Crab

Egg

Flounder

　

 Herring

Lamb

Lobste

Mackerel

Milk

Miso

Natto

Nori

Orange fish

Oyster

　

　

　

　

Pork

Scallops

Salmon

Sanma

Sardine

Shrimp

Swordfish

Trout

Tuna

　

　

　

　

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