{"id":4055,"date":"2013-01-07T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2013-01-07T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:55:24","slug":"iron-in-the-vegan-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/07\/iron-in-the-vegan-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron in the Vegan Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/catalog\/images\/vrg\/simplyvegan5th-cover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iron is another nutrient that new vegans and vegetarians are often concerned about. Fortunately, there are many excellent plant sources of iron. Our recently-updated article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/iron.php\" target=\"_blank\">Iron in the Vegan Diet<\/a>, contains a list of the iron content of selected vegan foods, a comparison of iron sources, and some sample menus that provide more than the daily recommended amount of iron.<\/p>\n<p>Iron in the Vegan Diet is excerpted from the newly released 5th Edition of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/catalog\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=1&#038;products_id=1\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Vegan<\/a>. For a limited time, we&#8217;re offering 50% off the cover price when you order 5 copies from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/catalog\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=1&#038;products_id=93\">online bookstore<\/a>. For more information about vegan nutrition, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nutrition<\/a> section of our website.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Vegetarian Resource Group relies upon the generosity of our supporters. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givedirect.org\/give\/givefrm.asp?CID=1565\" target=\"_blank\">donate<\/a>  so we can continue to provide vital nutrition information like this.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to VRG volunteer Alan Polster for converting this update into HTML!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron is another nutrient that new vegans and vegetarians are often concerned about. Fortunately, there are many excellent plant sources of iron. Our recently-updated article, Iron in the Vegan Diet, contains a list of the iron content of selected vegan foods, a comparison of iron sources, and some sample menus that provide more than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}