Ten foods for anemia

Ten foods for anemia

Blood is mainly composed of hemoglobin, the part responsible for carrying oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body, including the brain.

Iron is an essential component of the structure of hemoglobin so that when iron deficiency in the body will decrease successively Hemoglobin and thus the amount of energy and oxygen contained to the rest of the body, including the brain and this explains the symptoms that accompany anemia such as:

• Dizziness

• a headache

• Not feeling comfortable

• Confusion and others

Many people do not know they have anemia, but they discover it by chance when they go to do laboratory tests, which the doctor asked for something else.

Before and after any treatment, you should know the main cause of anemia. There are many causes of anemia, most of which are due to iron deficiency. Here we will mention the most important foods that contain iron in a large way.

Main foods containing iron:

1. Red meat:

• such as beef, beef and especially the liver part of it, it is rich in iron (every 100 grams of meat contains 1.6 mg of iron)

People who eat red meat regularly do not usually have iron deficiency anemia.

• Red meat is not the first choice for patients with anemia who have high fat.

1. Chicken:

• Helps the chicken to absorb iron found in plant foods so chicken is not considered a major source of iron as it is a factor in increasing the absorption of iron.

• Every 100 grams of chicken breast provides the body with 2% of the body's daily needs of iron. Compared to the chicken thigh, which provides 10% of the needs of the body of iron

1. Eggs:
   If you want a rich source of iron with a few calories, eggs provide this, as one large egg contains 1 mg of iron.

4- Seafood:
Marine molluscs contain large quantities of iron, with 100 g of molluscs satisfying the body's need for iron, such as oysters, mussels, prawns, and salmon.

5- peanut butter:
Peanut butter is a very rich source of iron, with two tablespoons of butter containing 0.6 mg of iron.

• Eat butter with a glass of orange juice (which contains vitamin C) that increases the absorption of iron in the body.

• Peanut butter is of course excluded as an iron source for people with peanut allergy,