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Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that potatoes gave you every vitamin and mineral you needed (except b12 which you can get from butter).
by captaincrunch 4y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that potatoes gave you every vitamin and mineral you needed (except b12 which you can get from butter).
- lucideer 4y agoB12 is a pretty important one if you want to avoid the title of section 1 of this article though. And while butter contains b12, you'd probably have to be eating a few bars of it a day to get enough long-term.
- mod 4y agoThat's my understanding. The spudfit guy did only potatoes and a B12 supplement for a year. His claim was that he was getting everything else he needed from the potatoes.
- corrral 4y agoYou can pick one of the usual Native American crop patterns and get a solid set of vitamins. Potatoes + beans + squash or something like that, maybe with some corn. Cf. Mann's 1491. If you're going for a minimal veggie ingredient diet these new-world combos work well as a base, in part because potatoes are pretty much a superfood.
- zhynn 4y agoI did the SMTM study and they prohibited dairy. So I got my B12 from sweet potato.
- lucideer 4y agoSweet potato doesn't contain B12 - you're probably thinking of Vitamin A. Dairy doesn't contain enough B12 to supplement you on it's own, which is why the study recommends against and instead suggests taking an actual B12 supplement (Puritan's Pride lozenges) 4 weeks shouldn't be enough time to develop a serious B12 deficiency but doing this for longer could impair you cognitively.
- xeromal 4y agoIs there an easy way to test your B12 when on this diet?
- lucideer 4y agoIt's typically via blood test, I'm not aware of any easier methods
- lucideer 4y agofwiw, I wouldn't personally be a massive advocate of supplements - dietary sources are usually better if possible - so not sure whether the study's supplement recommendation here is a good one. Just quoting the instructions given to participants