Why does trader joes smoked salmon contain no iron?

zekerella
zekerella Posts: 58 Member
in Food and Nutrition
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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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,227 Member
    Weeeird, that sounds like an error in their nurtitional info.
  • fernandesg
    fernandesg Posts: 54 Member
    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, imho :wink:
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    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 that
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
    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.
  • zekerella
    zekerella Posts: 58 Member
    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....

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