Vegetables nutrition – diet for best Iron absorption
Vegetables nutrition: diet for best Iron absorption
as we have discussed before, letting iron into our body is one thing, while absorbing it is another. After knowing where we could find it, lets discuss the absorption of all this iron, because as great as it is having all this iron in vegetables, nutrition is complex and we need to enhance the bodys’ ability to absorb the iron best it can.
In general, the stomach needs a certain level of acidity to digest the iron and turn it available for the body to use. A great way to encourage the absorption of iron is via the intake of vitamin C. it is available in most fresh fruits and vegetables, some more then others, and there for it is relatively simple to make sure we eat enough of it to do the job. Vitamin C could be found in abundance in these foods:
- bell peppers (all colors)
- broccoli
- parsley
- cabbage
- sprouts
- brussels sprouts
- kale
- tomato
- kohlrabi
and so mixing items from this list with iron rich foods will increase the absorption if the iron, and so it is recommended to eat them together. of course there are other foods that are rich in vitamin C, not only vegetables. nutrition needs of vitamin C could be filled, for example, by the rose hip extract, which is super-rich in the big “C” (the rose hip is actually used for many of the vitamin c supplements). we can also eat any of these fruits:
- papaya
- guava
- cantaloupe
- blackcurrant
- lemon
- orange
- strawberry
- kiwi fruit
- lychee
- clementine
- peaches
- mango
now that’s quite a list to chose from, and these are all great tasting foods!
so now we know where to get our iron, and our iron absorption boosters, and our vegetables nutrition based diet is tweaked a little more! good work! 
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