{"id":433963,"date":"2026-04-14T00:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/433963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:16:13","slug":"pairing-these-foods-can-boost-their-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/433963\/","title":{"rendered":"Pairing these foods can boost their health benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is because non-heme iron is usually in an insoluble form, so it needs to be converted to a soluble form \u201cand then go through the intestinal wall where it has to compete with other nutrients,\u201d Donelan explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fortunately, research shows vitamin C<\/a> enables non-heme iron to change forms and thus dissolve easier.<\/p>\n

To get the most bang for your buck, squeeze some lemon juice over saut\u00e9ed Brussels sprouts, or fix a spinach salad with strawberries, oranges, or bell peppers. Putting plant-based iron and meat-based iron on the same plate may also increase your intake, research finds; try Tuscan fish with white beans for dinner.<\/p>\n

Curcurmin and piperine<\/p>\n

Polyphenols, a subclass of phytochemicals, also garner interest among nutritionists for their antioxidant properties. Turmeric contains one polyphenol whose benefits know no bounds: Its main active ingredient is curcumin, which is anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and neuroprotective.<\/p>\n

But curcumin doesn\u2019t hang around long in the body when we eat it. \u201cWhen the body takes up curcumin, it gets metabolized very fast,\u201d Zingg explains. As a result, less curcumin is absorbed in the bloodstream.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is because non-heme iron is usually in an insoluble form, so it needs to be converted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[149074,18,192955,140766,135,192956,19,17,508,67220,1770,192958,192957],"class_list":["post-433963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-carotenoids","tag-eire","tag-food-benefits","tag-food-pairings","tag-health","tag-health-benefits-of-certain-foods","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition","tag-phytochemicals","tag-superfoods","tag-what-are-carotenoids","tag-what-are-phytochemicals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116400186084346025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}