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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I'm not sure why you're putting those words in quotes as if they're incorrect.

I put them in quotes as the word has no objective meaning as applied to a breakfast cereal, it's simply a marketing term. I did not intend to imply that ingested iron particles are not a valid source of iron for human biology.

Fair enough. Personally I don't think the words are an issue. It's not medically applicable, but it's just cereal, so *shrug*

put the ''words'' in quotes because in context it's definitely ''absurd bullshit'' and this is how i know that key on my keyboard doesn't work i have to use a different key so thanks

How is it "absurd bullshit"? Do you think it's somehow a different element? At worst, it's as bullshit as any other vitamin supplement, in that it's technically helpful, but just far more than your body can make use of.

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Tiny amounts of iron distributed throughout a piece of cereal don’t have enough of a magnetic charge to lift the weight of a piece of cereal. Pieces of cereal dust with higher concentrations of iron very much could. Those results aren’t especially surprising

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