{"id":458842,"date":"2010-03-22T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacknorrisrd.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:49:35","slug":"mineral-absorption-question-from-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458842","title":{"rendered":"Mineral Absorption Question from a Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Should we, as vegans, be concerned about the oxalic and phytic acid content of foods? I personally avoid eating rhubarb, buckwheat and starfruit, and only occasionally eat spinach, but it would be nice to know if my worries about mineral loss were accurate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would not worry much about oxalic acid as long as you are getting plenty of calcium and you are not prone to oxalate kidney stones. I think it&#8217;s fine to eat spinach every day.<\/p>\n<p>Phytic acid is a more difficult problem for me to answer. My guess is that it doesn&#8217;t present that much of a problem for vegans, but I also heard that in the Vegan Health Study, Dr. Michael Klaper found that many vegans were low in trace minerals (I was not able to find anything on it in a quick Internet search just now). It might, therefore, be prudent to take a multivitamin which would most likely overcome any problems caused by phytic acid.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacknorrisrd.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/feed-statistics.php?view=1&#038;post_id=897\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"display: none;\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=WaYMN2N7lOY:4XE7plfvLlc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=WaYMN2N7lOY:4XE7plfvLlc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/jacknorrisrdcom\/~4\/WaYMN2N7lOY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we, as vegans, be concerned about the oxalic and phytic acid content of foods? I personally avoid eating rhubarb, buckwheat and starfruit, and only occasionally eat spinach, but it would be nice to know if my worries about mineral loss were accurate. I would not worry much about oxalic acid as long as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}