a marriage

Meet the orange (or mandarin, tangerine, tangelo, etc.)

Meet Iron

 

If there is something you learn today...let it be this....

  Vitamin C and Iron should always be paired together.  

If your anemic, like me, your taking iron pills.  But you might as well sew a dress without any string if your not adding vitamin C to your diet.  Iron needs Vitamin C.  The body loves and needs iron naturally...some more than others...and it order for your iron to be absorbed into your body you need the vitamin C to make it happen.

You see, Iron needs to hold hands with Vitamin C because if it doesn't its just gonna go in one way and out the other.

So next time you need some more iron in your diet, or just in general b/c Iron is what are bodies need, eat that spinach with a few slices of orange or carrots. 

See my other post about "power couples" here.

And for some pairing ideas next time you eat:

high in iron:

nuts

spinach 

 roast beef 

 oysters 

 liver 

 raisons 

high in Vit C:

 oranges 

 papaya 

 grapefruit 

 brocolli 

 carrots