Full-text (PDF) | 1.1 Scope and purpose of the document: The purpose of this document is to assess, evaluate, and give guidance on the role of elemental speciation and speciation analysis in hazard and risk assessment, rather than to present a review of each element and its speciation. The effects...
Iron in plant foods such as lentils, beans, and spinach is nonheme iron. This is the form of iron added to iron-enriched and iron-fortified foods. Our bodies are less efficient at absorbing nonheme iron, but most dietary iron is nonheme iron. 1  1.
1 It is very important that humans consume a high amount of iron. 2  Good sources of iron include red meat, fish, lentils, beans, chickpeas, tofu and leaf vegetables. 3  Iron is the sixth most abundant element in the Universe. 4  Iron is the most abundant element in the core of red giants (giant stars with low mass).