Foods richest in Vitamin B12

The metabolic and storage organ of cattle, and consequently one of the most nutrient-concentrated foods in the human diet by a…

2471% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A small, soft organ meat with a milder flavour and finer texture than beef liver, which is why it dominates pâtés and parfaits.…

691% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Rope- or bottom-grown bivalves that need no feed input, making them one of the lowest-impact animal foods produced. They open…

500% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Small schooling fish canned whole with their soft, edible bones intact. Being short-lived plankton feeders low in the food chain,…

373% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, farmed and wild-harvested, whose flavour tracks the water they grew in closely enough that…

365% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A fast-swimming oily fish with dark, strongly flavoured flesh that spoils quickly and is therefore often smoked or canned. It is…

363% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Meat from deer, whether wild-harvested or farmed. Because the animals are active and rarely grain-finished, the carcass carries…

263% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The great majority of salmon sold worldwide, raised in sea pens on formulated feed. It is consistently fattier than wild salmon,…

135% of the Daily Value per 100 g

An anadromous fish that feeds at sea and returns to fresh water to spawn. Its pink flesh comes from astaxanthin accumulated…

133% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Almost always skipjack, a small fast-growing tuna, cooked and canned in water or oil. It is a distinctly different product from…

125% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Meat from sheep slaughtered under about a year old, with a distinctive flavour that comes largely from branched-chain fatty acids…

113% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Beef trimmings ground to a uniform texture and sold by lean-to-fat ratio, most commonly between 70% and 95% lean. The ratio is…

92% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The fat-soluble half of the egg, carrying essentially all of its fat, cholesterol, fat-soluble vitamins, choline and carotenoid…

81% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A hard cheese aged a year or more, during which enzymes break down protein into free amino acids and the crystalline tyrosine…

50% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Decapod crustaceans, the most traded seafood in the world by value and now largely farmed. Their shells contain astaxanthin bound…

46% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A large cold-water groundfish with lean, flaky white flesh that stores its oil in the liver rather than the muscle. That anatomy…

38% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A complete package of protein, fat and micronutrients built to grow a chick, split between a protein-and-water white and a…

37% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Tiny oily fish usually sold salt-cured and packed in oil, where months of curing dissolves the flesh into an intensely savoury…

37% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Yogurt strained to remove much of its whey, roughly doubling the protein per spoonful and leaving a thicker set. Products…

29% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The white pectoral muscle of the domestic turkey, leaner and larger-grained than chicken breast. Fresh roasting joints and…

26% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Dark leg meat, richer in myoglobin, fat and connective tissue than breast because these are the muscles the bird actually uses.…

25% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A small muscle running along the inside of the spine that does almost no work, making it the leanest and most tender cut on the…

21% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A fresh, unripened cheese made by acidifying milk and draining the curd without pressing, leaving the loose grains in a little…

20% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Cow milk with its fat left in, standardised to around 3.25% in most markets and almost always pasteurised. It is an emulsion in…

19% of the Daily Value per 100 g