Plant - based iron, also known
as nonheme iron, is absorbed at a slower rate.
Not exact matches
To improve your absorption of iron, eat it along with a good source of vitamin C — such
as orange juice, broccoli, or strawberries — or eat
nonheme iron foods with a food from the meat, fish, and poultry group.
Eating meat or poultry with
nonheme iron foods, such
as leafy greens, can increase iron absorption.
Animal foods such
as meat, poultry, and fish contain both heme and
nonheme iron, whereas plants contain
nonheme iron only.
Unfortunately for us vegetarians,
nonheme iron is not absorbed
as readily by the body
as heme iron is.
Animal tissue such
as meat, poultry and fish provide mostly heme iron, which is more readily absorbed than
nonheme iron, the type found in egg yolks and plant - based foods.