Foods high in Iron

Red meat and poultry dominate this ranking because their iron binds easily to the proteins that carry oxygen through your blood. Animal tissues contain haem iron, the form your body absorbs with the fewest obstacles. Plant foods hold non-haem iron, which your gut takes up less readily and only when other compounds in the meal do not block it.

Iron concentrates in organ meats, then muscle meats, then leafy greens and legumes. A single ranking cannot show you absorption rates. Two foods with the same iron count per 100 g deliver different amounts to your bloodstream depending on what else you eat alongside them.

FDA daily value: 18 mg

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Showing 12301–12350 of 13,381 foods

# Food Category Per 100 g % DV Source
12301 KRAFT CHEEZ WHIZ LIGHT Pasteurized Process Cheese Product Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12302 Lemonade, frozen concentrate, white, prepared with water Beverages 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12303 Beverages, Acai berry drink, fortified Beverages 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12304 CAMPBELL'S, Cream of Mushroom Soup, condensed Soups, Sauces, and Gravies 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12305 Soup, chicken vegetable with potato and cheese, chunky, ready-to-serve Soups, Sauces, and Gravies 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12306 Cheese, cottage, creamed, with fruit Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12307 Beverages, tea, instant, lemon, with added ascorbic acid Beverages 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12308 Babyfood, mashed cheddar potatoes and broccoli, toddlers Baby Foods 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12309 Milk, chocolate, lowfat, reduced sugar Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12310 Cheese, cheddar, sharp, sliced Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12311 Sweeteners, sugar substitute, granulated, brown Sweets 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12312 Tree fern, cooked, without salt Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12313 Potatoes, mashed, dehydrated, prepared from flakes without milk, whole milk and butter added Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12314 Plums, canned, purple, water pack, solids and liquids Fruits and Fruit Juices 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12315 Mangos, raw Fruits and Fruit Juices 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12316 Frozen novelties, ice type, lime Sweets 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12317 Frostings, vanilla, creamy, ready-to-eat Sweets 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12318 Frostings, cream cheese-flavor, ready-to-eat Sweets 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12319 Pineapple juice, frozen concentrate, unsweetened, diluted with 3 volume water Fruits and Fruit Juices 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12320 Tree fern, cooked, with salt Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.16 mg 1% USDA_SR
12321 Plant-based beverage, coconut, unenriched, sweetened, all flavours Beverages 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12322 Babyfood, fruit, jarred, apple and other fruit (plum, mango, kiwi, pear, banana, apricot and/or pineapple), all stages Babyfoods 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12323 Soup, cream, mushroom, canned, condensed, reduced sodium, 2% M.F. milk added Soups, Sauces and Gravies 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12324 Soup, cream, mushroom, canned, condensed, reduced fat, 2% M.F. milk added Soups, Sauces and Gravies 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12325 Yogourt, goat, fruit flavoured Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12326 Yogourt, vanilla flavoured, low fat, with added vitamin D (0.5-1.9% M.F.) Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12327 Yogourt, fruit flavoured, fresh cheese-type, miniature size, with added Vitamin D Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12328 Yogourt, goat, fruit flavoured, with added fibre Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12329 Yogourt, vanilla flavoured, low fat (0.5-1.9% M.F.) Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12330 Sweetener, granulated brown sugar Sweets 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12331 Icing (frosting), vanilla (white), creamy, ready-to-eat Sweets 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12332 Icing (frosting), cream cheese flavour, ready to eat Sweets 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12333 Dessert, frozen, ices, water, lime Sweets 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12334 Fish, halibut, Atlantic or Pacific, raw Finfish and Shellfish Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12335 Fish, cod (gray cod), pacific, raw Finfish and Shellfish Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12336 Lemonade, white, frozen concentrate, water added Beverages 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12337 Potato, mashed, prepared from flakes without milk, whole milk and butter added Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12338 Plum, canned, purple, water pack, solids and liquid Fruits and fruit juices 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12339 Pineapple juice, frozen concentrate, diluted Fruits and fruit juices 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12340 Mango, raw Fruits and fruit juices 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12341 Cereal, hot, corn grits (yellow), cooked Breakfast cereals 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12342 Deli-meat, Dutch loaf, old fashioned, pork and beef Sausages and Luncheon meats 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12343 Cheese, cheddar Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12344 Cheese, cottage, creamed with fruit Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12345 Butter, whipped Dairy and Egg Products 0.16 mg 1% CNF
12346 Carrots, mature, raw Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.15 mg 1% USDA_FF
12347 Onions, white, raw Vegetables and Vegetable Products 0.15 mg 1% USDA_FF
12348 Beverages, V8 SPLASH Smoothies, Tropical Colada Beverages 0.15 mg 1% USDA_SR
12349 Beverages, V8 SPLASH Smoothies, Strawberry Banana Beverages 0.15 mg 1% USDA_SR
12350 Beverages, V8 V-FUSION Juices, Tropical Beverages 0.15 mg 1% USDA_SR

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