Iron in Diet (Iron)

Member Name: bran120

Product:	Iron
Date:	13/08/00 (270 review reads)
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The best food sources of easily absorbed iron are animal products. Iron from vegetables, fruits, grains, and supplements are harder for the body to absorb. If you mix some lean meat, fish, or poultry with beans or dark leafy greens at a meal, you can improve absorption of vegetable sources of iron up to three times. Foods rich in vitamin C also increase iron absorption. Some foods decrease iron absorption. Commercial black or pekoe teas contain substances that bind to iron so it cannot be used by the body. The evaluation of absorbable iron in a food is a more accurate way to calculate iron available to the body than by simply recording the total iron content.

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