The child needs iron as follows:
- 7-12 months: 11mg/day
- 1-3 years: 7 mg/day
- 4-8 years: 10 mg/day
Source:
Swiss Nutrition Society (2004)
No, iron is not administered from the pharmacy!
The amounts of iron in the list of foods below are expressed per hundred grams of the food.
- Millet flakes: 9 mg
- Lentils: 8 mg
- Pork liver: 18 mg
- Calf liver: 7.9 mg
- White beans: 7 mg
- Chickpeas: 6.1 mg
- Egg yolk: 5.5 mg
- Tofu: 5.4 mg
- Dried apricots: 5.2 mg
- Almonds: 4.2 mg
- Oat flakes: 4.2 mg
- Hazelnuts: 3.7 mg
- Coconut: 3.5 mg
- Liver spots: 3.3 mg
- Dried dates: 3 mg
- Sardines: 2.8 mg
- Spinach: 2.7 mg
- Figs and prunes, raisins: 2.5 mg
- Nuts, peanuts: 2.5 mg
- Beef: 2.1 mg
- Peas: 1.9 mg
- Lamb, rabbit, goose: 1.9 mg
- Whole grain rice: 1.7 mg
- Wheat flour: 1.5 mg
- Pork, tuna: 1.4 mg
- Broccoli: 1.4 mg
- Currants, cranberries, mangoes: 1.3 mg
- White flour, semolina, biscuits: 1.2 mg
- Lettuce, green beans, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, avocado: 1 mg
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