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Anemic patients are mostly caused due to iron deficiency. Often when people, even medical personnel to patients with good intentions : “spinach containing a lot of iron, you should eat spinach.” In fact, this is a mistaken view.
First, the iron content of spinach is not very high, every 100 grams of vegetables contains only 2.5 mg iron. Food is the highest iron content fungi and algae food, every 100 grams of black fungus and dry mushrooms iron by up to 185 mg and 32 mg. Pigs, cattle, insurance program for higher iron content per 100 grams of iron content of 6.6 to 25 mg. These iron than spinach high.
In addition, the more important point is that : Spinach contains oxalic acid, it is very easy and iron, calcium metal combination generated by the human body can not be absorbed by oxalate. Scientists after study shows that the iron spinach in human intestinal absorption was dissolved within a mere 1% and the remaining 99% of the iron are substances such as oxalic acid combine to form a water-insoluble complexes, have lost their nutritional value. If spinach and other high-iron foods with food, spinach folate and other food will of iron binding affected the human right of these products of iron absorption.
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