cooking destroys B-12?  I would check out beyondveg.com if I were you!
Cooked tuna has removed my nightly legcramps from b-12 deficiency.
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From: Mark Hovila <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Licorice

> Joel,
>
> > supplementing for b12 is imperative for vegans.  contrary to alternative
> > opinion, tempeh and sea vegetables do not have b12, just bioinactive
> > analogues that pass for b12 in tests.
>
> Gabriel Cousens in his book Conscious Eating cites research financed by
the
> Maine Sea Vegetable Company which found that kelp, alaria, dulse and laver
> all have high amounts of human utilizable B12.  The independent lab which
> examined these foods at the request of the company found, for instance,
that
> dulse has 2.05 ug of human active B12 per 100 grams.  This means,
according
> to Cousens, that one half ounce of dulse per day will supply the daily
> requirement for B12.
>
> "Human active B12" is not an analogue, as Cousens explains elsewhere in
the
> book.  I will contact the company to see if they are willing to make the
> research available for us to see.
>
> I have also read in numerous places that cooking destroys B12.
>
> Francis's "low" B12 finding may not be a problem at all, since she had no
> symptoms.
>
> Mark
>