Food ingredient · Vitamin / mineral
Iron
Iron added to enriched flour, cereals and supplements.
- Vitamin or mineral (fortification)
- Expert review pending
Concern level
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:
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Cheerios General Mills · 8.9 oz Score 65 out of 100 Good -
Peanut Butter Pretzels Kirkland Signature · 55 oz Score 21 out of 100 Poor -
Honey Wheat Bread Nature's Own · 20 oz Score 30 out of 100 Poor -
English Muffins Thomas' · 13 oz, 6 muffins Score 47 out of 100 Okay -
Crunchy Breakfast Biscuits Belvita · 1.76 oz Score 15 out of 100 Bad -
belVita Crunchy Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits Belvita · 1.76 oz Score 15 out of 100 Bad -
Honey Maid Graham Crackers Honey Maid · 14.4 oz (408 g) Score 19 out of 100 Bad -
Mac & Cheese Kraft · 7.25 oz Score 59 out of 100 Okay -
Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal Cheerios · 2 × 1 lb 4.35 oz (20.35 oz) (576 g) Score 65 out of 100 Good -
Honey Nut Cheerios General Mills · 10.8 oz Score 17 out of 100 Bad -
Carb Balance Flour Tortilla Wraps Mission · 340 g Score 46 out of 100 Okay -
Ritz Crackers the original Ritz · 13.7 oz (388 g) Score 12 out of 100 Bad
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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