Paul Saladino· MD
the only place I could get zinc the only place was pumpkin seeds and I I will guarantee you that you will not get enough zinc and pumpkin seeds because of the phytic acid
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the only place I could get zinc the only place was pumpkin seeds and I I will guarantee you that you will not get enough zinc and pumpkin seeds because of the phytic acid
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Good luck getting your zinc from plant foods. Uh, vegans would try to eat a ton of pumpkin seeds, but most of that zinc is going to be bound by phytates, uh, by oxalates, and as I've shown in the past, it is very, very poorly bioavailable.
Okay pumpkin seeds are probably the only source of zinc in the plant kingdom but the problem with pumpkin seeds is all that zinc is bound up in things like phytic acid and oxalates these are Big molecules that chelate the zinc they bite the zinc and they make it very poorly bioavailable
well pumpkin seeds contain a lot of zinc but is much of that bioavailable no because like most seeds and most plant seeds included in this including beans and nuts and Grains which are all plant seeds they're all planted in the ground they grow into plants they contain phytic acid a compound that is a large molecule that keates these minerals and prevents their absorption into your body