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Hi,
Are you particularly big on plant milk intake? The alpro stuff is fortified with B12 and D.
I get through a ton of oat milk with cereal and have a protein shake daily; but also take spirulina / chlorella tablets which have a little B12. If you go the spirulina route though make sure you find something certified as 'metal free' as there are (apparently) some dodgy cheap brands that are less than ethical in that respect.
Or just go for a well known supplement...
aniki
Thanks for your reply @Simba.
What I meant was that I (in general) keep up a very healthy and varied diet - and, in addition to that, I take care to include things like nutritional yeast and alcohol free wheat beer, for the B12.
I'm a bit confused now though.
It seems I did wrongly assume that all nutritional yeast products contain the vitamin B12 that I want - though apparently only fortified ones actually do; quoting from the Wikipedia here:
Since nutritional yeast is often used by vegans who may be interested in supplementing their diets with vitamin B12, there has been confusion about the source of the B12 in nutritional yeast. Yeast cannot produce B12, which is naturally produced only by some bacteria.
Some brands of nutritional yeast, though not all, are fortified with vitamin B12. When it is fortified, the vitamin B12 (commonly cyanocobalamin) is produced separately and then added to the yeast.
..regarding the non-alcoholic wheat beer:
I did read that this does not contain any significant amounts of B12.
Yet on the website of my favourite one Erding claims that half a liter gives 0,65 µg -
not that I'd want to drink four of those on a daily basis but still I wonder what's going on here.
Does the yeast in af beer actually contain B12 / can the yeast bacteria actually produce B12? Is their beer "fortified" with vitamin B12?