unable to meet daily zinc requirement

male
21
101 pounds
5'7

i use this app called healthifyme to track my macro and micro nutrients.

im meeting my calorie intake along with macro nutrients and most micro nutrients EXCEPT ZINC.

its value is stuck at 1.2mg which is quite lesser than the daily zinc requirement which is around 11 mg a day for men. I searched zinc rich foods in google and tried to add various combinations of those food which i could afford or eat to the log to see if it value will improve but even after my best try the change was from 1.2mg to 3mg.

i was curious to see what my zinc intake was when i was following my previous unbalanced diet so i filled it out and found out i was only taking 0.3mg

could i have found the reason of my being so underweight?

anyway what do you guys think?

should i get a zinc supplement?
should i go take a zinc deficiency test?
should i just take 1.2 or 3mg a day?

any help will be appreciated,thank you.


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