A day in the life of Brent: Increasing Intake of iron for a 1 year old

For our baby's one year iron test she showed up slightly low. They suggested increasing iron in the diet. After reviewing the Self Nutrition Data I found out some foods that I think I can get my one year old to eat more of. Children from 1-3 years old need 7mg of iron a day. Keep in mind the amounts below are for 100g portions of the foods which may or may not be the portion the child is eating. The 100g portion used here only used so that I can see gram per gram what has the most iron.

All the data from this site assumes 100g of the food which may or may not be a serving size. What I wanted was an gram to gram comparison and that is what the list shows below. I have picked out some popular foods and foods I thought my baby girl would eat. I also included foods we commonly eat for comparison. The list on the site is extremely comprehensive, I have just hand picked a list I can work with.

In general fortified cereals are a good value, but check each cereal for content or look it up explicitly.

multigrain cherios 62mg

infant oatmeal 10-51mg

Rice Chex 33mg

Chocolate PowerBar 12mg

White beans 10mg

Tofu 10mg

Sausage Turkey 10mg

Sun dried tomatoes

egg 8mg

Kidney Beans 8mg

Whole wheat pancakes 8mg