Make Your Food Work for You. Science tells us that the presence of vitamin C can help your body absorb iron from the foods we eat by up to three times as much! Iron enhances oxygen transport to all tissues of our bodies that depend on a constant supply, and is necessary to support proper metabolism for muscles and other active organs.

 

Many athletes and bodybuilders, women, and the general population are low in iron and suffer low energy, pale skin, dizziness, or a tingling or crawling feeling in the legs.

Healthiest food sources of iron include soybeans, spinach, sesame seeds, red meat, and lots of legumes (lentils, chick peas, kidney and lima beans).

Eating a high vitamin-C food with your dietary iron increases the amount that is absorbed. Healthiest food sources of vitamin C include papaya, peppers, broccoli, brussel sprouts, strawberries, pineapples, and citrus.

See Mipstick’s High-iron with added Vitamin C Recipes folder on Pinterest; including steak and pineapple skewers.