Sweet redress

I had real trouble falling asleep last night. I was still so annoyed about the earlier Omega3 preaching by my psychiatrist. I started Google-searching for Omega3 and iron content in various products. I will now let you in on my results. Source is fineli.fi (the finnish National Food Administration) unless noted otherwise.

Omega 3.
Fish is commonly referred to as THE food product that contains these polyunsaturated fatty acids, supposedly good for you. The swedish National Food administration recommends you a daily Omega3 intake of 2-3 g. If you boil any regular fish, it will contain 0.9 g of polyunsaturated fatty acids / 100 g of product. If you compare this with linen (flax) seeds, they contain 14.2 g of polyunsaturated fatty acids. On this fineli-webpage they don't mention how much of these polyunsaturated fatty acids are Omega3, but if you search for linen seeds their Omega3 content is praised. So, hypothesise for convenience that all the polyunsaturated in fish and linen seeds are Omega3 fatty acids. In my breakfast muesli I have approximately 50 g of linen seeds, meaning I average an intake of 350 g of linen seeds each week. This means I eat about 50 g of polyunsaturated fatty acids/Omega3 each week. In order for you to get the same level of polyunsaturated fatty acids/Omega3 through eating fish, (as mentioned before, 1 g of polyunsaturated fatty acids per 100 g boiled fish), you would have to eat 5 kg boiled fish each week. I would say, 1-0 to linen seeds vs. fish.

Iron.
The beans I boil for The Soup contain about 8 mg of iron per 100 g dry bean. I would say each portion of The Soup correspondingly contains 50 g of dry beans. For a meat-eater to consume the same amount of iron in each serving, he needs to eat 350 g of pork (1.1 mg iron / 100 g), 80 g of horse (4.9 mg / 100 g), 140 g kebab (2.8 mg / 100 g), 160 g beef meat balls (2.5 mg / 100 g), 80 g caribou (6.7 mg / 100g), 115 g elk (3.5 mg / 100 g). So it is reasonable for the meat-eater to eat at least as much iron as the Soup/bean-eater. Although maybe difficult for the exclusive pork eater. But my point is obviously that the bean-eater does in no way have a hard time consuming the same amount of iron as the meat-eater, which otherwise so popularly is said impossible, or at least very hard, for the poor vegetarian. What also should be noted is that the uptake of iron is immensly increased by a simultaneous intake of vitamin C. Your common soup-eater gets about 25 mg of vitamin C in each serving through half a divine lemon. Any idea about how the meat-eater boosts a simultaneous C-vitamin intake?. By the way, if you put 50 g of the excellent linen/flax seed in your muesli every morning, you get another 4.1 mg iron each day!

Stop worrying about the vegetarian; we get proteins, we get omega3, we get iron. And stop using the same "arguments" as a reasons to continue eating meat. And please, do yourselves a favour today, consider them linen seeds! They provide you with not only an abundance of Omega3 fatty acids and iron, but also with so much fibers and proteins. Just a brilliant component of a good muesli, and a healthy day!