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minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down12·edit-25 months agoCarrots don’t even have Vitamin A in the proper form. They have vitamin A precursors that your body can use to make vitamin A. If you want actual vitamin A you find it in liver *Downvoted by what I’m guessing are vegans.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down6·5 months agoDownvoting because you use the comment to hate on vegans lol.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·5 months agoNot the comment, nor using. I’m commenting on the downvotes and trying to figure out the cause.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoAnd I am downvoting youe edited comment :D
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months ago“uhm it’s ackshully provitamin A in carrots, you need to inject retinol to get the ackshul vitamin A 🤓”
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·5 months agoFound the vegan. He has to mock nutrition.
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoI eat primarily meat, but it’s wrong to say you’re going to have a vitamin A deficiency just because you eat provitamin A instead of retinol.
Carrots don’t even have Vitamin A in the proper form. They have vitamin A precursors that your body can use to make vitamin A. If you want actual vitamin A you find it in liver
*Downvoted by what I’m guessing are vegans.
Downvoting because you use the comment to hate on vegans lol.
Not the comment, nor using. I’m commenting on the downvotes and trying to figure out the cause.
And I am downvoting youe edited comment :D
“uhm it’s ackshully provitamin A in carrots, you need to inject retinol to get the ackshul vitamin A 🤓”
Found the vegan. He has to mock nutrition.
I eat primarily meat, but it’s wrong to say you’re going to have a vitamin A deficiency just because you eat provitamin A instead of retinol.