When you stop eating meat, some of the digestive enzymes in your stomach may change and the acidity may change a little bit. There's not really much bioavailable zinc in any plant food. Pumpkin seeds are probably the only source of zinc in the plant kingdom. But all that zinc is bound up in things like phytic acid and oxalates. They bite the zinc and make it very poorly bioavailable.

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