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Show Vegetable filch In Iron. Although It hi) long been supposed that spinach Is especially rich In Iron, the results of unnlyses by scientists ubroad seem to prove thut several other vegetables contnin more. Spinach holds only .0S0 per cent of Iron oxld but lettuce md cabbage each contain .0.W per cent, und the leaves of celcrj and of kohlrabi iiro also richer. lo tatoes, carrots, green benus, mushroomi and hazelnuts coutulu from .(111 to .U' per cent: onions, radishes and mull-(lowers mull-(lowers but .004 per cent ; tomatoes mid upplcs only JK)1 per cent. When these vegetables nre boiled n portion of tlu-Iron tlu-Iron oxld Is dissolved In the water and Is lost when the wntor Is poured orf.-Mllwaul:ee orf.-Mllwaul:ee 8eutlnel. |