Have you ate enough red meat?

Today I saw something really funny on Facebook, as most people are aware you can post a status and express your thoughts or whatever on Facebook so your friends can see and comment.

One of my friends status was "has been so tired lately...tired and weak and like REALLY tired, what’s wrong with me!??"

The first comment by one or their friends was "have you been eating enough red meat?"

This is so funny it hurts. This is one of the most common perceptions that people have, that you can only get iron from red meat.

Here is a list of food and their iron content:
2 Eggs (100 g): 2 mg
Breakfast cereal (30 g): 2.5 mg
Whole meal bread (60 g - 2 slices): 1.4 mg
Spinach (145 g cooked): 4.4 mg
Lentils/kidney beans (100 g cooked): 2.5 mg
Tofu (100 g): 1.9mg
Sultanas (50 g): 0.9 mg
Dried apricots (50 g): 2.0 mg
Almonds (50 g): 2.1 mg

Now, people think eating some mince will give them iron they need well according to the site I’m pulling figures from beef only contains 4 mg of iron per 100 grams. Therefore according to these results that spinach contains more iron than beef.

I eat vegie burgers from Sanitarium and they are yummy. Per serve (per burger) they contain 3.3mg of iron and per 100 grams they contain 3.5 mg.

I think the backward thinking that you can only get iron from meat is stupid. People who say this are usually either butchers or associated with the murder factory.

Not convienced? Read the information from a trusted article provided by the Australian goverment