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The American Red Cross recommends eligible blood donors eat a well-balanced diet with extra iron-rich foods prior to their donation this fall. During the fall, iron-rich produce such as broccoli, kale, sweet potatoes, spinach, apricots and chard are in season and therefore more abundant. Food can have two types of iron, heme and nonheme. The body can absorb up to 30 percent of heme iron, primarily found in meat, but only 2 to 10 percent of nonheme iron.
Give yourself at least one or two months to achieve healthy iron levels. These ten fruits are rich in iron and will help bring your haemoglobin levels up. There are also iron-rich vegetables, including peas, parsley, and garbanzo beans. Find a link to another article about veggies that are rich in iron at the end of this article.