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Is 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 d
by Ekaros 2y ago
Is 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...