{"id":389983,"date":"2026-01-04T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:22:09","slug":"spinach-doesnt-supply-usable-iron-unless-paired-with-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389983\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinach doesn\u2019t supply usable iron unless paired with vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transform meals without fuss. Squeeze half a lemon into saag, toss tomatoes in palak dal, or sip orange juice with spinach salad. These deliver 50-100mg C, the sweet spot per Hallberg. Amla works too, packing six times more C than oranges, as Indian trials show.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for pitfalls: Tea or milk nearby tanks uptake 60 percent, per Piskin. Cook spinach lightly; boiling leaches less iron than raw. Start small, track energy. Women, especially, gain from this amid monthly losses.<br \/>Spinach loads vitamin K for bones, folate for hearts, and lutein for eyes. Vitamin C amps those too, fighting oxidative stress linked to diabetes. Studies like those in ACS Omega tie regular green intake to 20 percent lower chronic risks when paired right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transform meals without fuss. Squeeze half a lemon into saag, toss tomatoes in palak dal, or sip orange&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,137,3939,208870,532,41039,208871,33580],"class_list":["post-389983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-iron","tag-iron-intake","tag-nutrition","tag-orange","tag-vit-c-intake","tag-vitamin-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}