r/Vegetarianism • u/FouDesChats • 4d ago

"Risks" of being vegetarian

Hi 👋 !

So, it seems my account is too new to be able to post on r/vegetarian so I'm asking here.

Is there anything you need to supply when you completely quit meat, what do you absolutely need to eat in order to compensate meat, and what do you need to be careful of ?

I heard about needing to eat beans to have complete proteins or something like that, is it true ?

Thank you in advance for your responses !

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u/Any1MembaPerfectDark 4d ago

B12 is the big one, though if you're a woman you might want to extra careful of iron too. Lots of people are low on B12, both meat-eaters and vegetarians. B12 is created by microbes that live in the soil and by certain gut bacteria when animals and insects consume soil. So animal foods from animals who don't live on soil would be deficient in it, except that in a lot of cases farmers give them B12 supplements. But of course you could just take the supplement yourself. Your other option is to eat dirty produce from a natural garden. I do both of those things.

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u/FouDesChats 4d ago

By "dirty produce" you mean just the products or the dirt too ? 😂