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What? Unless you have haemochromatosis this is really tinfoilery over the iron levels acquired through natural ingestion, especially the thought of leach levels
by ikiris 2y ago
What? Unless you have haemochromatosis this is really tinfoilery over the iron levels acquired through natural ingestion, especially the thought of leach levels from a pan. You get more iron from meat or a bowl of cereal than you could ever get from a pan without it being flat out dissolved in the process over the course of a handful of cooks.
- Ekaros 2y agoIs the iron that leaches from pan even bio-available? Aren't supplements very specific compounds? I can admit that it might be toxic, but that toxicity is not due to something like over production of haemoglobin...
- dmurray 2y agoIron filings (mostly elemental iron with some iron oxides) are used as supplements, so definitely bio-available.
- ikiris 2y agoBut to get enough iron out of a pan to even match a single bowl of cereal you'd have to use a grinder.
- dmurray 2y agoCereals run around 5 mg iron for a bowl [0]. A pan is about 1 kg (a good cast iron one could be much heavier). That's enough for 200,000 bowls of cereal. Even if you reckon the pan is degraded enough to be obviously useless after losing 5% of its weight, that would require you to use it every day for 30 years, not "a handful of cooks". [0] https://www.haemochromatosis.org.uk/breakfast-cereals-and-their-iron-content https://www.haemochromatosis.org.uk/breakfast-cereals-and-th...