{"id":12577,"date":"2018-09-04T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:36:35","slug":"does-drinking-tea-interfere-with-iron-absorption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/does-drinking-tea-interfere-with-iron-absorption\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Drinking Tea Interfere with Iron Absorption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12578\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVegetarian Resource Group Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD answer the following question in the latest Vegetarian Journal Nutrition Hotline column: \u201cI drink several cups of black tea every day. Recently, I found out that I&#8217;m anemic, and my doctor told me to stop drinking tea because it could be interfering with iron absorption. Do I really need to give up my tea?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do read the entire Nutrition Hotline column, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2018issue3\/2018_issue3_nutrition_hotline.php\">Nutrition Hotline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to Vegetarian Journal, go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetarian Resource Group Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD answer the following question in the latest Vegetarian Journal Nutrition Hotline column: \u201cI drink several cups of black tea every day. Recently, I found out that I&#8217;m anemic, and my doctor told me to stop drinking tea because it could be interfering with iron absorption. Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12579,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions\/12579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}