Dan Stromberg wrote:
[snip; tea and iron]

There's a good discussion of dietary iron he
<URI:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002422.htm>

This link talks more about tea and iron, and looks like a pretty good
summary of what one finds from digging through PubMed for a few hours:
<URI:http://www.teahealth.co.uk/th/facts/8.htm>

(Executive summary: if you have iron status problems, avoid tea with
or shortly after meals, along with any other steps you take to improve
iron status.)


HTH,
N.