Can licking an iron bar get you the daily recommended amount of iron?

R5v5n1nt@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 172 points –

How many licks would it take? Can the iron in bars even be processed by the body? Can you do this for other minerals?

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It's hard to imagine there's no culture in the world that would've adopted this as a practice.

One suggestion in the old days was to stick a nail in an apple for a while and then eat it. The apple of course. Without the nail

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