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Testing iron content in foods

Buttersquash

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As a hobbyist urban farmer, I can't emphasize enough how soil is everything. We can read through endless iron analysis lists of foods but the fact is much of the iron content (and mineral content overall) depends on the type/quality of the soil in which the food was grown.

Having your food tested is the only way to really know. I recently used a food lab (EMSL Analytics) to test some bird food pellets and it was pretty helpful. I plan to use them for any new pellet I wish to try, just in case. However be aware the results are never conclusive; iron content can vary from batch to batch.

In any event, I'm going to have to concur with the advisory stated in the link posted in the thread on health problems on softbills - I think it's best to limit pelleted/fortified feeds overall.
 

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