What do vegetarians eat to get lots of iron?!


Question: ive only been 1 for 3-4 days


Answers: ive only been 1 for 3-4 days

prunes, apricots, beans, spinach, corn, apples, some cereals, cream of wheat, oatmeal, brown rice, eggs, dates, raisins, peas, broccoli, carrots, peaches, pasta and bread.

Spinach
Anything green and leafy

Legumes and nuts.

Dried fruit are often cited as a source of iron, and they are, but legumes and nuts should be your primary source because they also have protein, calcium and other things whereas fruits don't.

You should consume them with vitamin C because vitamin C is a reducing agent that convers ferric iron to ferrous iron and this can be absorbed by the body.

There is a variety of things. Here's a link to the same question you asked 4 hours ago with a good answer from Cinderella.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Spinach

I'm vegetarian, i eat frosted mini weats...they've got iron.

Food.

Sources for vegetarians include iron-fortified breakfast cereals, spinach, kidney beans, black-eyed peas, lentils, turnip greens, molasses, whole wheat breads, peas, and some dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes, raisins). The following article provides detailed food sources of Iron ranked by milligrams of iron per standard amount and also one article for vegetarian food guide.





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