Eager to cover your nutritional bases with a vegan multivitamin or take a specific plant-based vitamin to meet a specific nutrient deficiency or need? This guide will show you your best options for everything from vegetarian gummy vitamins to prenatal vitamins to vitamin B12, Iron, Omega-3 DHA, Calcium, and Vitamin D. We also cover vegan…
Do vegans need to take vitamins? What vitamins to vegans and vegetarians need? Can we get everything from food, or are plant-based supplements important? Let’s ask a nutritionist expert! Vegan Registered Dietitian Taylor Wolfram is back with another nutrition guide to answer all your questions. So, you went vegan. Awesome! You’re saving animals and minimizing…
You know that recommendation from the American Heart Association to eat two servings of fatty fish per week? That’s because of the type of fat that fish have in their bodies. Salmon, herring and sardines contain DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), an omega-3 essential fatty acid. But guess what? The fish actually get their DHA from algae.…
Where do vegans get their protein? How can you get all your nutrients as a vegan? Can you get everything you need from food or do vegans need to take vitamins or supplements? What about Vitamin B-12? Omega-3s? Are you getting enough iodine? This vegan nutrition guide was written by vegan Registered Dietitian Taylor Wolfram…
This article was sponsored by our friends at Hippo7 vitamins—made by vegans for vegans! Hippo7’s vegan vitamins are specially formulated for plant-eaters and include all 7 of the essential vegan nutrients we’re talking about today. Eating vegan comes with a plethora of health benefits—like reduced risk of many debilitating diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type II…
A quick search for turmeric online brings up 72 million articles. That’s a lot of Google juice for this flowering member of the ginger family that stains pretty much anything it touches bright orange. But why, oh why, is this tuberous root so popular? Well, it’s widely used in worldwide cuisines, for one. Most notably,…
We all know by now (I hope!) that we should be supplementing Vitamin B-12 as vegans. But many mistakenly believe that B-12 is the only vitamin we should be supplementing. In fact, there are several other vitamins that are equally important to consider. Today we’re welcoming back registered dietitian Taylor Wolfram to share what vegans…