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Soy fights iron deficiency - Eat Right News
Shape, June, 2003 by Carol Potera
If you need to boost your iron intake, there are nutritional options besides red meat. Unlike other plants, soybeans and other soy foods store most of their iron in a form called ferritin that is more readily absorbed y the body. Researchers from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California and Pennsylvania State University studied 18 women, all borderline iron-deficient, who ate soybean-based soup and muffins made with soy flour.
When the amount of iron taken up by their red blood cells was measured 28 days later, about 27 percent of the iron had been absorbed, a much higher percentage than is absorbed from foods with low ferritin, such as wheat and corn.
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