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Seafood

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11.3 µg of vitamin B12 per 100 g — 471% of the requirement. Sodium is 601 mg, and most of that salt ends up in the broth.

Seafood

Nutrition data

23.3 µg of vitamin D per 100 g, the highest on this site. But it also carries 1,043 µg of vitamin A, in the form that has an upper limit.

Seafood

Nutrition data

Canned tuna in water packs 19 g of protein into 85 kcal per 100 g. But its omega-3 is one-twelfth of salmon's.

Seafood

Nutrition data

Its iodine and calcium made it a postpartum food. That same iodine is why thyroid conditions call for caution.