According to the USDA's MyPlate guidelines, women capable of becoming pregnant should choose foods that supply heme iron that is more readily absorbed by the body, such as meat, poultry and seafood, and also
additional iron sources.
Not exact matches
If you will look at the nutrient charts for our formula recipes (see below) you will see that there is actually more
iron in the homemade formulas than there is in breast milk, so there is no need whatsoever to add
additional sources of
iron up to the age of six months.
At this stage, however, she needs
additional sources of protein and
iron.
We support
additional experimentation and modeling, whether looking at natural
sources of
iron from dust, volcanoes, rivers, seafloor, or when
iron is added to the ocean during controlled experiments.
Given that there is slightly more
iron in the homemade formula than even in breastmilk, there is no need to supplement
additional sources of
iron for an infant until about the age of 6 months.
At WHFoods, we rate summer squash as an excellent
source of two minerals (copper and manganese) and very good or good
source of six
additional minerals (magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, calcium, and
iron).