Food sources of iron

Which items contain larger amount of iron? How did you decide whether the amount was more or less?

You can do this with water collected from different sources like wells, hand-pumps, tap water, just like you did with distilled water. Write down your observations.

From this experiment we can only discover whether an edible item contains iron or not. But this does not end the discussion on anaemia, because it is not necessary that our bodies can digest or absorb iron from all types of sources. Absorption of iron in our bodies requires helping elements like vitamin C. It is more difficult to absorb iron from a vegetarian diet, thus it helps a lot in such cases to eat foods containing vitamin C. With regard to absorption it can be said that iron is more easily absorbed from a non-vegetarian diet. Vitamin C and other absorbing elements are incorporated in iron tablets in any case to ensure its proper absorption in our bodies, so it is certainly beneficial to consume them. Including more iron-containing items in food in addition to that can help in reducing anaemia.

[Contributed by administrator on 14. März 2018 20:02:32]