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b12 question

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I normally get a bottle of now brand vitamins simply labelled b12. Yesterday I bought a bottle of the same brand labelled Methyl B12.

The lozenges are different.They're white with speckles & taste bad, like cough medicine. The other kind is pink & has a cherry flavor that's much better.

The bottle labeled plain b12 has cyanocobalamin, methylcobalamin & dibencozide. The new bottle has only methylcobalamin. Is there any difference healthwise?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, Methylcobalamin is a more readily available form of Cobalamin. Cobalamin gets transformed into Methylcobalamin in your system. You bypass this step by taking Methylcobalamin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@duckweed @vegan AFAIK methylcobalamin is just fine, I am taking it for the last 10 years exclusively (beside drive-by intake in other foods), and my B12 has never been in deficit. But I do really hate it when the taste changes, takes me a while to adapt each time...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)