What nutrients can only land meat give you, and can you be healthy without it (supplement, zinc)

[NJ Brazen_3133]

What nutrients can only land based meats give you if there are any? Can you completely cut land meat out of your diet and still be considered healthy?

[JustJulia]

Land meat ... as opposed to seafood? Will you still eat fish, crustaceans, or molluscs?

[MJ7]

Very small amounts of vitamin K, slight increase in folate (still not much), betaine, and that's about it. There are other things that land animals have more proportions of compared to marine meat; such as, thiamin, riboflavin, iron, less sodium, and much more zinc.

[AnonChick]

You can absolutely still be healthy without consuming land meat. A well-balanced vegetarian + fish diet can provide all the nutrients your body needs.

[MJ7]

Originally Posted by AnonChick

You can absolutely still be healthy without consuming land meat. A well-balanced vegetarian + fish diet can provide all the nutrients your body needs.

I would say in a diet where one is to eat moderate proportions this is an incorrect statement. Fish does have high and sometimes higher levels of micronutrients, but it does lack in a few vitamins/minerals and you will not find in plant foods.

[AnonChick]

Originally Posted by MJ7

I would say in a diet where one is to eat moderate proportions this is an incorrect statement. Fish does have high and sometimes higher levels of micronutrients, but it does lack in a few vitamins/minerals and you will not find in plant foods.

Which nutrients that a human needs, is lacking in a diet that combines vegetarian with fish consumption in moderate proportions?

[MJ7]

Originally Posted by AnonChick

Which nutrients that a human needs, is lacking in a diet that combines vegetarian with fish consumption in moderate proportions?

Define fish...are you talking crustaceans as well?

[user_id]

You can cut all meat out of your diet and be perfectly healthy. Avoiding land-based meats has no complications at all.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by MJ7

Define fish...are you talking crustaceans as well?

The only nutrient a purely plant-based diet is missing is B12 which can be easily supplemented, but commonly eaten sea foods are the richest sources of B12 so a plant-based diet + some fish meets all nutritional needs.

[AnonChick]

It doesn't matter if I include crustaceans or not, because non-crustacean fish (you know, fish. Surely you've seen them, those funky roundish oblong things with the fins and tails and gills that swim in the water and don't ever walk onto shore?) will give you all you need when combined with a vegetarian diet.

It's also called (erroneously) a Mediterranean diet.