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by adding Iodized salt, dried Seaweed to the food and from milk, Navy beans or White beans, Potato with skin, Strawberries, Cranberries.
Use of Iodized salt , Iodine based supplements, See weeds are better strategies to improve Iodine status for vegan people.
Iodized salt will be the main source for the iodine in the vegan diet. And seaweed also will be help you get some amount of it. Some foods contains naturally some amount of salt such as milk and beans.
Estimated daily need of man who is about 0.2 mg of iodine and by doubling for pregnant and in the period of breast-feeding
But more studies and statistics indicate that the daily consumption in over much less than this percentage countries
Because meat and freshwater fish and cereals do not contain iodine
And iodine salts available in non-iodine added to it is not enough
But the seaweed containing high amount of iodine, so quantity permitted medically from one to five grams (and that no more than five grams of weed) per day,
Vegetable sources and quantity of iodine in 100 grams:
Kombu Combo 100-500 mg
Arame Aramaic 60-80 mg
Hijiki hijiki 30-50 mg
Wakame and Kami 25 mg
Sea salt 10-20 mg
Dulse Dlzh 8 mg
Nori Nuri 5-8 mg
Most Japanese consume Nouri and the proportion of iodine which is low compared to other herbal and have no shortage of iodine
