IRON IN VEGETARIAN DIETS

The recommended daily allowance (RDA) are given in more detail in the following table.

However, vegetarian should probably increase their intake by some margin. This is because heme iron from meat and fish are more bio-available than non-heme iron from plant-based foods, on the other hand eating meat, poultry, and seafood also increases the absorption of non-heme iron. Curiously enough this little fact might just act against fish/meat eaters and not for them. Heme is a highly toxic compound a...