VeggieCheck

VeggieCheck is a comprehensive laboratory profile prepared to evaluate the health status and nutritional balance of individuals who follow a vegetarian or vegan diet. It helps monitor micronutrient deficiencies and metabolic imbalances that may be associated with reducing or completely eliminating animal-derived foods.

When properly planned, vegetarian and vegan diets can be a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. However, in this type of diet, regular monitoring is important with regard to certain vitamins, minerals, trace elements, proteins and fatty acids. VeggieCheck aims to evaluate an individual's nutritional status with laboratory data for this need.

 

Why is VeggieCheck important?

In diets in which animal-derived foods are restricted or not consumed, inadequate intake of some essential nutrients may lead to various deficiencies over time. These deficiencies do not always present with obvious complaints. For this reason, laboratory monitoring at regular intervals helps ensure that the diet is healthy, balanced and sustainable in the long term.

The results obtained with VeggieCheck help evaluate the person's current diet, readjust the diet if necessary, and plan appropriate supplements. In this way, the patient and/or the healthcare professional following them can make more informed decisions.

 

Who is VeggieCheck suitable for?

VeggieCheck is particularly for:

1. Individuals who follow a vegetarian diet
2. Individuals who follow a vegan diet
3. People who want to check the adequacy of their diet
4. Those who want to evaluate the suitability of vitamin and mineral supplements
5. Individuals who want to arrange their diet in a more informed and personalized way

a suitable evaluation profile.

 

What does VeggieCheck evaluate?

VeggieCheck examines metabolic pathways and nutritional indicators that may be sensitive in vegetarian and vegan diets. It helps evaluate parameters that may be affected, particularly by the reduction of animal-derived foods.

 

Parameters examined

1. Albumin
2. Ferritin
3. Zinc
4. Vitamin A
5. Vitamin D
6. Vitamin B9 (erythrocyte folate)
7. Vitamin B12
8. Homocysteine
9. Erythrocyte fatty acid status
10. Urinary iodine level (Iodine in urine)

 

Advantages of VeggieCheck

1. Helps monitor possible deficiencies in vegetarian and vegan diets
2. Provides objective laboratory data on the adequacy of the diet
3. Contributes to readjusting supplements and the nutrition plan when necessary
4. Supports assessing whether metabolic processes are continuing in a healthy way
5. Enables personalized nutritional monitoring

 

Balanced nutrition, informed monitoring

Vegetarian or vegan diets can be part of a healthy lifestyle with appropriate planning. By providing laboratory-based monitoring of this process, VeggieCheck helps individuals manage their diet in a safer, more balanced and more sustainable way.

 

*Test duration: 4 weeks, Test type: Blood and urine sample