It turns out that eating red dates can't replenish blood? Doctor: Many girls don’t like to eat foods that really enrich blood

Many people already know that red meat, animal blood and animal liver are the best choice for blood tonic. These foods are rich in heme iron, and its absorption rate is very high.

As for the traditional "blood tonic artifact", brown sugar and red dates, has long been refuted by nutrition and medical professionals. Their iron content itself is not too high, moreover, they are all non-heme iron that is not easily absorbed by the human body, so it can not play a role in supplementing blood.

As for why female friends eat brown sugar or red dates during menstruation will be more comfortable, more or the role of hot water and sugar, but also with blood not much relationship.

But for anemic female friends, it is obviously difficult to accept this reality. For the sake of health, they really want to "replenish blood" for the body, but they really don't like red meat, animal blood and animal liver.

Recently, a new "blood tonic artifact", Hawthorn has appeared on the Internet, which makes many female friends seem to have found a savior. But can Hawthorn really play a role in nourishing blood? Here's a detailed analysis:

It is said on the Internet that Hawthorn can nourish blood because it is rich in vitamin C, which can reduce the hard to absorb non heme iron (trivalent iron) into heme iron (divalent iron), promote the intestinal absorption of iron and improve the utilization rate of iron.

There is no problem with this theory of vitamin C. many doctors will also ask anemia patients to take iron supplements and vitamin C tablets together, the purpose of which is to promote the absorption of iron.

But even if vitamin C is helpful in the absorption of non heme iron, the premise of this help is that food is inherently rich in iron.

And every 100g of Hawthorn only contains 0.9mg iron, so only eat hawthorn, iron supplement effect is very poor.

In fact, even if there is a food with high non heme iron content, vitamin C content is also very high. Finally, the amount of heme iron that the human body can absorb can hardly match that of red meat, animal blood and animal liver. However, if meat and vegetables are combined, and more vitamin C is taken, it can indeed have a better blood-replenishing effect.

Therefore, advise all female friends, do not always think about eating some favorite food to play the blood tonic effect.

Animal blood and liver may be difficult for some girls, but the iron content of red meat like beef, mutton and pork may be slightly lower than that of blood and liver, but there are various ways to eat. I believe you can also find the one you like to eat