How many licks would it take? Can the iron in bars even be processed by the body? Can you do this for other minerals?
Some kind of iron piece is given in some African countries to fight iron deficiency by putting it in the food while it’s cooking, so it works.
Iron fish
Cooking in a cast iron pan adds more iron to your diet
https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/how-much-iron-do-i-get-from-a-cast-iron-skillet
A little cat iron puck was introduced in an Asian region with high iron-deficiecy in the poorer population, but nobody used it. So they did some research and changed it to resemble a fish instead and it took right off. Turns out the local culture considered fish lucky or something.
I actually teach my students about this strategy that the WHO employee in Micronesia in my sport nutrition class. It’s less about the iron fish, and more about that dietary iron can come from cast iron cooking sources instead of supplementation (as the latter often causes digestive distress).
referring to this: https://luckyironlife.com/pages/lucky-iron-story
I saw someone do a demonstration once, they took a box of “iron-fortified” breakfast cereal, dumped it into a bowl, then ran a magnet through it. The magnet picked up some of the dust from the bottom of the bowl, that dust being the tiny iron particles that were added to the cereal to “fortify” it.
I’m not sure why you’re putting those words in quotes as if they’re incorrect.
I put them in quotes as the word has no objective meaning as applied to a breakfast cereal, it’s simply a marketing term. I did not intend to imply that ingested iron particles are not a valid source of iron for human biology.
Fair enough. Personally I don’t think the words are an issue. It’s not medically applicable, but it’s just cereal, so *shrug*
put the ‘‘words’’ in quotes because in context it’s definitely ‘‘absurd bullshit’’ and this is how i know that key on my keyboard doesn’t work i have to use a different key so thanks
How is it “absurd bullshit”? Do you think it’s somehow a different element? At worst, it’s as bullshit as any other vitamin supplement, in that it’s technically helpful, but just far more than your body can make use of.
I’ve watched the video in question.
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Tiny amounts of iron distributed throughout a piece of cereal don’t have enough of a magnetic charge to lift the weight of a piece of cereal. Pieces of cereal dust with higher concentrations of iron very much could. Those results aren’t especially surprising
Grammar is just “rules” and “rules” were invented by “humans”. You can put “quotations” around whatever you “want”, nobody can “stop” you.
Be the “absurd bullshit” you want to see in the world! Breakfast cereal “is” a scam!
And which is more bioavailable, metallic iron or iron oxide? Do we want to lick clean iron or rusty iron??
You can get all the iron you need from vegetables and certain meat or even taking supplements. There’s no need to go about eating rusty metal. In fact, my doctor has advised me not to eat nails. I have to trust what he says, he’s printed out several impressive medical degrees.
Gives a whole new meaning to this.
US RDA age 19+ is 8 mg / day. Maybe if the iron bar is really rusty. Or, pills are cents a day. OR you could eat breakfast cereal or liver, lentils or spinach, Popeye.
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/iron-HealthProfessional/#h2
Breakfast cereals made of liver and spinach feel like an unexplored market
I’ve read once that eating iron won’t do anything for your iron intake, but for example sticking some rusty nails through an apple for a while and then eating the apple would.
I think you’d lose just as much iron if not more iron in the blood you’d lose consuming that apple.
Licking a rusty bar seems like it would be a good way to abrade your tongue and contract tetanus.
It’s hard to imagine there’s no culture in the world that would’ve adopted this as a practice.
One suggestion in the old days was to stick a nail in an apple for a while and then eat it. The apple of course. Without the nail
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When my wife was pregnant, a buddy gave her an old cast iron pan and told her to heat applesauce in it. Said it should help her iron deficiency, too bad we’re to add to have remembered…
a buddy gave her an old cast iron pan and told her to hear applesauce in it
Did she mention how the apple sauce sounded like? Why even involve the cast iron pan, and just simply squirt some directly into the ear canal?
Lol, goddamned autocorrect got me again
It’s not your fault. You are to add to have remembered…
This is the reason prisoners are so healthy and full of vim and vitality. (right…)
UMMM I don’t think you can get iron in your diet this way. First off, it’s unlikely you’re going to find a bar of pure iron anyway, since most metal bars are composites of many minerals.
Also, the iron has to specifically be in an ingestible form so the liver can process it. An iron bar ain’t a lollipop. (maybe that should be a slogan for something).
When they say that cereal has added iron, they really mean that actual bits of iron are added (very tiny particles). You can use a magnet to pull some of them out, they’re little iron filings.
So if you file the bar down first and eat the filings, MAYBE it would contribute to your iron intake. But - why not just grab some milk and eat the cereal instead?
Quick Google search suggests that using cast iron cookware increases your iron intake. I’d imagine the heat process has something to do with it though, so still incredulous that licking an iron bar would be effective, though I’m at a very minor maybe.
I saw that also but I have my doubts that you’d get much iron intake from cooking in iron pans. People used to get lead poisoning from using lead pots and pans, so - maybe it’s possible. I’m not sure how much iron frying pans, for example, are pure iron.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28049274/ It’s a strategy for defeating iron deficiency.
Huh. So there IS some reason to think cooking in iron pots will increase levels of iron in your blood. Interesting! I know metal can leach out of cooking vessels and into food, so that’s not too surprising. Thanks for the information!
It’s not that simple. Cast iron pans when properly seasoned won’t leach much iron into the food. However, I recall reading about a group who brewed their beer in iron kettles. And it was found to be a significant source of iron, as a result.
And beer itself for various reasons enhances iron absorption.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4434614/
Some types have more iron than others
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084511.htm
Beer! Solves almost as many problems as it causes.
Japan has traditional iron kettles (that are stupidly expensive) and they’re often mentioned by doctors for use in people who have iron deficiency here. That or iron pans. They even make an iron ball to put in normal kettles and such, but that weirds me out a bit.
good question
