Cooking your Iron foods – Dos and Donts

Do’s:

1. Cook Iron rich foods in Iron vessel to ensure additional contribution of Iron into your food
2. Cook in low to medium heat to avoid oxidation of Iron in food
3. Prepare your Iron rich foods spicy / salty / sour to ensure maximum absorption of Iron by your body
4. Cook and consume Vitamin C rich foods like Amla, orange, and turnips along with Iron rich foods

 

Dont’s:

1. cooking and consuming calcium rich foods like milk
2. drinking tea, coffee
3. consuming poorly processed / cooked grains and pulses and
4. consuming raw fibre
5. consuming fatty foods

along with your Iron rich foods

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