I am vegan, where do I get calcium from?

Answer 1

http://www.soystache.com/calcium.htm#Source
This website lists a comparison chart of different plant based calcium sources. It also includes other nutritional information about each source.

http://www.dolenutrition.com/facts_ae.aspx
This link will let you look up a specific vegetable or fruit and it will tell you what nutrition it is very high in.

Don't worry, you can get all the calcium even if you are vegan. When I went vegan I started tracking everything I ate and broke it down nutritionally to make sure I wasn't damaging my health. I found that I was getting more than enough of my vitamins, minerals, calcium, protein, etc as long as I ate a healthy and well balanced diet.

Answer 2

I am a meat eater. I make no apology. But if you choose to be a "vegan" OK. Beans, supplements like lime. As a vegan you must watch out for the source of calcium. You cannot take oystershell calcium ( lime ) since it comes from an animal source, right? Or from Coral either for the same reason. So eat lotsa ( sic ) beans.

Answer 3

if your a vegan, you should really know where to get this from, im guessing you just started.
im 17 and been a vegan for 2 years.
orange juice is a good source and probably the easiest around. there are a lot of juices that are calcium and vit d fortified.
kale also has a good amount of calcium in it and so do a lot of vegan specialty foods like veganBurgers or tofu based meals.

Answer 4

In general eat a bunch of green leafy vegies and jucies with some beans and you will be fine. dont worrie about it. eat healthy and varrie the diet and you should get almost everything u need. get a doctor to run a test on iron and all the other stuff u get from food they can test for a few months after becoming vegan to check that you are infact getting what is needed. if you are not consider vegan supliments. there are websites that list suitable for vegan ones

Answer 5

Broccoli, kale,kelp, and seaweed, white beans, calcium fortified soy milk and tofu, almonds have tons, so do sesame seeds, flax seeds have lots of calcium and iron as well, and a big glass of carrot and celery juice has lots of calcium, magnesium and tons of vitamin C. You don't even really need supplements, but you can take one just to make sure. If you get constipated, that's an indication that you're taking too much calcium.

I hope this helps :-)

Answer 6

Here's a good chart on Plant based soruces of Calcium:
http://home.bluegrass.net/~jclark/calcium_foods.htm
The 50+ years of the Dairy Industiries PR Machine would have you beleive they are the only way. Causing an amazing amount of ill health along with all that dairy consumption.
It's great you want to know the truth & teach yourself to be health without the problems animal product based diets lead to.
Slainté (to your health)

Answer 7

Calcium supplement pills from a health food shop or a pharmacy.

Answer 8

Marina, multi vitamins are good but also in health food stores they have Plenty of products that have calcium in them. also I found this site that I hope will help you http://www.healthyeatingclub.com/info/books-phds/books/foodfacts/html/data/data5c.html

Answer 9

white beans, spinach, brocolli, soy beans, almonds, flour tortilla, tofu with calcium, soy milk with calcium, orange juice.

Answer 10

Dark, leafy greens (kale, collard greens, spinach, etc.), beans, seeds, nuts, soy products, rice milk, and rice milk products.