You Don T Need To Take Vitamin C With Your Iron Supplements Study Suggests
The standard practice for managing IDA has been for a person to increase dietary sources of iron and take an iron supplement, as well as supplemental vitamin C or foods rich in vitamin C, Nicole DeMasi Malcher, MS, RDN, CDCES, registered dietitian and founder of DeMasi Nutrition, tells Verywell. But now, Malcher confirms that recent data “suggests vitamin C might not be necessary to absorb non-heme [not animal based] iron supplements in the body....