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Diet and Nutrition |
Iron in popcorn08/13/2008 06:09PM |
My light microwave popcorn box`s nutritional panel says that 3 Tbsp unpopped popcorn have 8 percent of the daily recommended amount of iron. That makes about 7.5 cups of popped corn.But 1 cup of popped corn, it says, has no iron. Shouldn`t it be about 1 percent? Where does the iron go?
Your iron didn't go anywhere. It just seemed to disappear as numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number. The 8% value is probably a 'rounded up' value and the 0 was probably 'rounded down'.
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Sharron Coplin, MS, RD, LD Lecturer, Food & Nutrition Department of Human Nutrition College of Education and Human Ecology The Ohio State University |
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