What Is The Best Wat To Get Iron Into Your Diet Without Eating Meat Or Spinach?
Whole-grain and enriched breads and cereals provide ready amounts of iron and other nutrients. Cereal products fortified with higher amounts of iron usually cost more. Check the Nutrition Facts label to learn how much iron is in a serving.
Dark green, leafy vegetables, such as spinach, chard, and collard greens are good sources of iron because they tend to be low in calories and are rich in vitamins and minerals. Aim for five servings a day. Many fruits and vegetables contain vitamin C, which helps your body absorb iron.
Iron in meats, fish, and poultry is used especially well by the body. Meat, eggs, dried beans, and nuts have slightly more iron than poultry and fish. Dark meats have more iron than light meats. Liver is one concentrated source of iron. Choose lean meats to limit your intake of saturated fat.
Nettles!
Dark high cocoa chocolate. I used to have a friend with a genetic inability to store iron on her some of her blood cells, she was recommended to eat 100g of this a day. Other added benefits of this are that it also helps to reduce your blood pessure.
I use marmite,or vegemite.
The following are high in iron:
* Tofu
* Pulses – e.g. baked beans, lentils
* Broccoli
* Wholegrains
* Dried fruit – e.g. figs, apricots, dates
* Nuts & seeds
* Millet (grain a bit like cous cous in texture – basically an alternative to pasta and rice)
* Molasses
* Dark chocolate
Guiness Guiness Guiness! very high in iron. Used to be prescribed by doctors for pregnant women.
blackstrap mollasses.
Drink Guiness!!
Drink Ovaltine or take iron tablets.
Daily vitamin with Iron
Iron pills.
The suggestion of using an iron pot to cook your food is a very good one. I don’t know why she got two thumb downs. However, that food should be at least slightly acidic, and you should consume it with vitamin C.
iron pot + acid = soluble ferric iron
ferric iron + vit. C = absorbable ferrous ion
lentils have high amounts of iron.
parsley has some too.
and whenever you eat foods with iron always eat a citric fruit. it helps fix the iron in the body and helps the body absorb more iron than normal from the food.
This means that if you eat meat or lentils or spinach even though they have large amounts of iron your body will only absorb a part of it. Eating a citric fruit afterwards will make you absorb even more and fix it correctly so that it stays in your system.
dried fruit-raisins in particular and beans or taking a supplement
Using iron pots to cook your food.
Most leafy dark green veg contains iron. Marmite and mushrooms also contain iron, as does chocolate (Yay!). If you are concerned that you are not getting enough, there are also supplements.
Beets and green, leafy vegetables.
without red meat, i would say just take an iron supplement.
chew on a crow bar
any dark leafy green vegetable.. beans.. nuts.
soy milk… soy…
but spinach is good… it takes some getting used to by some but you should really try to get a relationship with the stuff.
kale is also jammed with iron.
avocado is an iron giant also. artichokes… some lettuce.. (mostly the darker leaf types)
Meat is still the best way.
I don’t eat meat and i take an iron supplement called Spatone it is an iron rich water that you mix with half a glass of fruit juice.Its nice to drink and very effective.
Try this linkhttp://health.rutgers.edu/factsheets/iro…
rye bread
my first choice would be peanut butter
List of Grains Rich in Iron: Iron (mg.)
Brown rice, 1 cup cooked 0.8
Whole wheat bread, 1 slice 0.9
Wheat germ, 2 tablespoons 1.1
English Muffin, 1 plain 1.4
Oatmeal, 1 cup cooked 1.6
Total cereal, 1 ounce 18.0
Cream of Wheat, 1 cup 10.0
Pita, whole wheat, 1 slice/piece, 6 ½ inch 1.9
Spaghetti, enriched, 1 cup, cooked 2.0
Raisin bran cereal, 1 cup 6.3
List of Iron Rich Legumes, Seeds, and Soy:
Sunflower seeds, 1 ounce 1.4
Soy milk, 1 cup 1.4
Kidney beans, ½ cup canned 1.6
Chickpeas, ½ cup, canned 1.6
Tofu, firm, ½ cup 1.8
Soy burger, 1 average 1.8 to 3.9*
List of Vegetables Rich in Iron:
Broccoli, ½ cup, boiled 0.7
Green beans, ½ cup, boiled 0.8
Lima beans, baby, frozen, ½ cup, boiled 1.8
Beets, 1 cup 1.8
Peas, ½ cup frozen, boiled 1.3
Potato, fresh baked, cooked w/skin on 4.0
Vegetables, green leafy, ½ cup 2.0
Watermelon, 6 inch x ½ inch slice 3.0
A Sample List of Foods Rich in Iron:
Blackstrap Molasses, one tablespoon 3.0
Dates or Prunes, ½ cup 2.4
Beef, Pork, Lamb, three ounces 2.3 to 3.0
Liver (beef, chicken), three ounces 8.0 to 25.0
Clams, Oysters ¾ cup 3.0
Dark meat Turkey ¾ cup 2.6
Pizza, cheese or pepperoni, ½ of 10 inch pie 4.5 to 5.5
Try eating lots of wholegrains like wholemeal bread, rice and pasta. Seaweed, watercress, black molasses, parsley, green leafy vegetables, nuts, dried fruit, seeds and pulses also have a lot of iron in. You can also get fortified foods and drinks and can take supplements like iron pills.
Try the following site for more information:http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nu…
Bean broth.
Most breakfast cereals have iron in them. Or you could try multivitamins with iron.
rasins, grapes, grape juice is all high in iron
Try having a quarter cup of rasins at breakfast, alogn wiht a small glass of orange juice. VItamin C (in orange juice) is supposed to make your body absorb more of the iron from the rasins somehow.
Iron supplements probably
First of all, ignore all the morons who advise you to eat black molasses. This stuff causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
Beans are you best source of iron.