Need more iron

wwk10
wwk10 Posts: 244 Member
edited November 10 in Recipes
My android MFP app shows more than Calories, Fat, Protein, Carbs.
It breaks meals and days down into what looks like the nutrient info printed on packaged food. (I wish I could see that on here)
I can see % Vitamin A, C, Iron, potasium etc.
At first I only focused on Calories, Fat, Protein etc.
But I have been paying more attention to Daily recommended allowance of everything lately.

I usually hit calcium, potasium, Vitamin A and C etc.
But I tend to be around 40-60% for iron.

Any suggestions to add iron?

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  • fit921
    fit921 Posts: 92 Member
    spinach, you can add it to so many recipes.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    I'm in the same boat and I eat spinach daily (sometimes several times)
  • WildFlower7
    WildFlower7 Posts: 714 Member
    I am actually anemic, I was told by my doctors drinking tap water is great for Iron consumption. Although I'm not sure how you'd track that, if that's what your looking to do. Do you take any multi-vitamins? Also meat is extremely good for iron. I take Iron supplements but only because my dr. reccomended them.
  • Alachofra15
    Alachofra15 Posts: 117 Member
    Don't depend on spinach - it;s iron content depends a lot on how it's eaten and even where it's from.

    The perception that it's a miracle veg for iron was actually a result of a misplaced decimal point in early health literature - i.e. it was published to have 10x more than it had!

    Multi-vitamins are the way to go
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Meat, beans, greens, raisins, prunes, cereals...

    Here is a list of common foods and their iron content, in order by content.

    https://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR24/nutrlist/sr24w303.pdf
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