Food ingredient · Vitamin / mineral

Iron

Iron added to enriched flour, cereals and supplements.

  • Vitamin or mineral (fortification)
  • Expert review pending

Concern level

No concern Level 0 of 4 How concern levels work

A whole food or a benign function, with no credible concern. It never costs points. The concern level sets how many points iron costs on a product’s receipt.

Popular products that list iron

2,209 of the 17,000 most-scanned products in the US with a GoodSwap page list iron. The 12 most scanned:

Diets and allergens

Vegan
Yes
Vegetarian
Yes
Gluten-free
Yes

For the ingredient in general. Always check the package: a product’s own labels win.

Names GoodSwap recognizes on labels (32)
  • iron
  • fer reduit
  • iron reduced
  • iron sulfate
  • reduced iron
  • carbonyl iron
  • iron and zinc
  • iron fumarate
  • iron sulphate
  • elemental iron
  • ferric citrate
  • iron phosphate
  • ferrous lactate
  • ferrous sulfate
  • sulfate ferreux
  • ferric phosphate
  • ferrous fumarate
  • ferrous sulphate
  • fumarate ferreux
  • electrolytic iron
  • ferrous gluconate
  • iron bisglycinate
  • iron reduced iron
  • ferric sodium edta
  • ferric pyrophosphate
  • ferrous bisglycinate
  • iron ferrous sulfate
  • ferric orthophosphate
  • ferric ammonium citrate
  • stabiliser ferrous gluconate
  • stabilizer ferrous gluconate
  • ferrous sulfate or reduced iron

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