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CULINARY INGREDIENT
White beans
Cannellini beans are the white bean used here. Cooked beans can be mashed or left whole.
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In the kitchen.
Drain and rinse canned beans. Raw dry beans require their own safe soaking and cooking procedure; these recipes are not instructions for that substitution.
Iron · follow the connection
Plant foods contain nonheme iron. Vitamin C-containing foods can improve its absorption. A recipe link does not measure the iron absorbed. This is a nutrient function, not evidence that a meal treats anemia. Fatigue has many possible causes; this explorer does not diagnose it.
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- NIH ODS · Iron ↗
Updated August 17, 2023 · Full page reviewed 2026-10-11
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