{"id":8504,"date":"2025-07-14T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8504\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:02:08","slug":"the-9-best-iron-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8504\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 Best Iron Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">While some supplements are designed to be taken with food, it&#8217;s usually recommended that you take it on an empty stomach, says Gans. &#8220;Iron is absorbed best on an empty stomach with a little vitamin C, like a glass of orange juice, because vitamin C helps your body take in the iron more efficiently,&#8221; she explains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Collingwood specifically recommends taking your iron an hour or two before a meal for best results. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">But if your iron supplement bothers your stomach, Gans says it&#8217;s fine to take it with a small meal. &#8220;Just try to avoid dairy with it,&#8221; she says. (The calcium in iron may interfere with absorption.) <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Along with dairy products, Gans points out that these foods and drinks can mess with iron absorption and shouldn&#8217;t be taken at the same time as your supplement:<\/p>\n<p>Calcium supplementsCoffeeTeaHigh-fiber foods<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">&#8220;Calcium competes with iron, and fiber can bind to it, making it harder for your body to absorb,&#8221; Gans explains. &#8220;It\u2019s best to take iron at a different time than those foods.&#8221; (Coffee and tea contain polyphenols and tannins that can interfere with absorption, Collingwood says.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some supplements are designed to be taken with food, it&#8217;s usually recommended that you take it on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,2980,269],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-most-popular","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}