Great northern beans contain 2.1 milligrams of iron per 100 grams. Grams is a measure of weight. To put 100 grams in perspective; consider alternative measures for this food:
- 1 cup equals 177 grams.
In the category of beans; we excluded protein isolates and other processed foods from the Top 10 list and include only whole beans. You can assume that if the whole version made the top 10 list; so too would the refined version.The food tested for the particular graph below can be described more specifically as:
Great Northern Beans; mature seeds; cooked; boiled; without salt
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Great Northern Beans And Iron
Great northern beans contain a good bit of iron. Only a small, one-half cup portion of great northern beans contains about ten percent of the daily iron for a woman aged twenty to fifty. That is a fairly powerful amount of iron. However, these white beans do have an iron inhibitor called phytic acid that reduce your ability to absorb all of the iron in the great northern white beans. The good news is that there are some fairly straight-forward kitchen preparation strategies that will help you reduce the phytic acid in your beans and unlock their iron so that it will contribute more to a diet of iron rich foods.
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