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How about lentils? Or is the abundance of iron in lentils a legend?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 12:43:06 PM EST
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Actually, as far as I know, lentils (and other produce like spinach which contains more iron than the average veggie) indeed contain sufficient iron, but its iron is harder to extract/assimilate by our digestive system than the iron found in meat.

Which is why vegetarians sometimes (this isn't a norm) turn anemic.

Here, Wikipedia explains this better:
the amount of iron that can be absorbed from spinach is negligible.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 12:56:23 PM EST
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Actually, as far as I know, lentils (and other produce like spinach which contains more iron than the average veggie) indeed contain sufficient iron, but its iron is harder to extract/assimilate by our digestive system than the iron found in meat.

Which is presumably why humans are omnivores.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 12:58:39 PM EST
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Yes, I was about to chip at your spinach argument, Popeye! We don't get much iron from spinach, in fact.

I'm not going to argue about lentils, though. I love lentils.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 02:29:44 PM EST
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Lentils are very rich in protein, apparently.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 03:50:13 PM EST
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