Eat these foods to increase your iron intake

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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : February 8, 2019, 6:10 PM

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Iron

Having an essential role in numerous metabolic pathways in the body, iron is a mineral that transports oxygen throughout the body. Naturally found in many foods, it helps your cells work properly. And its deficiency in your body can lead to serious impacts on health including fatigue, heart palpitations, breathlessness, and pale skin. Notably, iron is important and essential for developing brain and its deficiency in infancy can have long term negative impacts on brain function and behaviour. We lost iron from our body through sweat, shedding intestinal cells, and blood loss. More than men, women need to pay attention to their iron consumption as they lose blood each month during menstruation. Therefore, here we tell you about few foods that are rich in iron.

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Green Vegetables

Green vegetables: Vegetables like spinach, kale, swiss chard, and beet greens contain between 2.5 to 6.4 mg of iron per cooked cup.

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Pumpkin Seeds A

Pumpkin seeds: 28 grams of pumpkinseeds contains 4.2 mg of iron. Also, these are very tasty and a good source of zinc, vitamin K, and manganese.

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