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On the contrary, dietary iron, the kind you need, is just iron. There's a fairly common science demonstration where you blend up fortified breakfast cereal (I s
by delecti 4y ago
On the contrary, dietary iron, the kind you need, is just iron. There's a fairly common science demonstration where you blend up fortified breakfast cereal (I saw it done with corn flakes) and pass a magnet over it. The magnet will pick up a bit of iron dust.
The amount of steel flaking off a knife into any given meal is likely much smaller than how much iron is in the food on its own merits.
- shagie 4y agoThere's also using cast iron to introduce iron into the diet. Food prepared in iron cooking pots as an intervention for reducing iron deficiency anaemia in developing countries: a systematic review - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12859709/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12859709/ It's also something that many vegans have looked into https://plantprosperous.com/cast-iron-cooking-for-vegans/ https://plantprosperous.com/cast-iron-cooking-for-vegans/ (which links to the above article too - though I found the nih one first) My search-fu is failing me at the moment, but that was also believed that this was an important part of the pioneers heading west in the early parts of United States history.
- selimthegrim 4y ago> Food prepared in iron cooking pots as an intervention for reducing iron deficiency anaemia in developing countries I believe also a little iron fish is sometimes introduced into the non iron pot during cooking.
- shagie 4y agoThat's the first I've heard of it... so I looked it up. https://brightthemag.com/lucky-iron-fish-raise-questions-about-how-best-to-address-anemia-cambodia-d65bd66cf228 https://brightthemag.com/lucky-iron-fish-raise-questions-abo... and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28049274/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28049274/
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- Graziano_M 4y agoI remember seeing that on Bill Nye.