what’s the difference between food iron and wild iron

Question

I know that you can’t eat stuff made of iron, but I don’t know WHY you can’t just eat iron stuff. I know iron supplements exist how is that different?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You can eat metal iron, the stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve some of it into useable form. But overdosing on iron is also possible -the daily requirement for iron is about a spec of dust, so don’t start taking ball bearings instead of iron pills.