Why does trader joes smoked salmon contain no iron?
zekerella
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Ok so I love smoked salmon. And I am always ensuring that I meet my iron requirement everyday or close to. Salmon is always high in iron. I just looked at the nutrition facts for traderjoes coho smoked salmon and it's 0% iron?! Whhhaaaa??? How?!
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Weeeird, that sounds like an error in their nurtitional info.0
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I just checked the nutrient database by Health Canada. Looks like salmon is not a good source of iron whether it's raw or smoked. It has about 0.35mg of iron in 100g of salmon. Since the RDI for iron is 8mg/day for men and 18mg/day for women, that means 100g of salmon is only 1.9% of the RDI for women. :ohwell:
But salmon is really good for Omega 3's :flowerforyou:
For reference, these are the sites I used:
http://webprod3.hc-sc.gc.ca/cnf-fce/index-eng.jsp
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/#h2
I had steamed lemon asparagus salmon for supper - so yummy!:happy:
ETA: Also, I have noticed that MFP is inconsistent in whether people have entered the iron content as %RDI or as mg. I don't personally like the %RDI as the RDI is different for males, females, young, older, etc. I prefer working in mg, but then I'm a chemist and work in mg all the time anyway, lol. Milligrams are more accurate than %RDI, imho0 -
Because Iron is not a legal requirement on Nutritional labels which is why tracking it on MFP is pretty pointless as it will never be accurate due to that0
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Ok so I love smoked salmon. And I am always ensuring that I meet my iron requirement everyday or close to. Salmon is always high in iron. I just looked at the nutrition facts for traderjoes coho smoked salmon and it's 0% iron?! Whhhaaaa??? How?!
According to nutrition lists of the WHO ( my employer ) smoked salmon has 0.85mg of iron in 3oz . The number is slightly different from fresh salmon.0 -
Oh weird!!! A pamphleteer I got at my dr office listed foods high in iron and salmon was on there so I just never doubled checked!! Time to get a new dr? And to buyt more salmon because yum.
I'll just add more spinach and almonds to my salmon dishes....0
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