This means that adding 500 mg of Vitamin C to your daily
intake of dietary iron would be very helpful if your iron levels are low.
However you feed your baby, either with breast milk which naturally contains iron, or with iron - fortified formula, your baby will receive optimal
amounts of dietary iron.
Vitamin C can increase the absorption of iron (especially the iron found in plant foods) and may help lower the
risk of dietary iron deficiency.
A placebo - controlled study led by UNLV anthropologist Daniel C. Benyshek and co-author Sharon Young last year found that consuming encapsulated human placenta, a growing practice known as placentophagy, as a
source of dietary iron offered no benefit to postpartum mothers.
There are two
types of dietary iron: haem iron (found in animal foods) and non-haem iron (found in plant foods).
Indeed, many of the differences in health outcomes between formula - fed and breastfed infants that are usually attributed to the lack of immune factors in formula may be explained, at least in part, by different intakes of dietary iron [1, 6].
This occurs for two reasons: first, commercial formulas are extremely low in iron content (unless the formula is supplemented with iron), and second, because the intestinal
absorption of dietary iron is much greater in breast vs. bottle - fed infants.
This reserve came from mom during the last trimester of pregnancy, so without an adequate
supply of dietary iron (whether through a combination of breastmilk, iron - fortified formula and cereals, or foods naturally high in iron), babies can be at risk for iron - deficiency anemia.
A total of 1.4 billion women of child - bearing age and young children who live in countries with a high prevalence of anemia would lose more than 3.8
percent of their dietary iron at such CO2 levels, according to Meyers.
Effects of oxidative stress induced by high
dosage of dietary iron ingested on intestinal damage and caecal microbiota in Chinese Yellow broilers — Z. Y. Gou — Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
In the United States, about
half of dietary iron comes from bread, cereal, and other grain products [2,3,5].
Vegans and vegetarians can find
plenty of dietary iron in legumes, dark chocolate, spinach, seeds, and many other iron - rich plant foods.
Cast iron cookware leaches a significant amount
of dietary iron into the food cooked within it (especially when cooking acidic foods like spaghetti sauce).