How much iodine do we need?

From this health blog continúamos with the work of announcing the quantity of micronutrients that our organism needs. In this occasion we stop in one that is not of the most well-known but that nevertheless, it is necessary so that our body works correctly: how much iodine do we need?

The first answer might be that we need approximately 150 micrograms of iodine a day. How you can see, it is a question of a quite small iodine quantity, what does that it is relatively simple to consume it along a day.

Between the food that have major iodine concentration are the fish and the seaweed. This way, there are the food that we can consider to be the principal iodine source, along with the seafood and some vegetables. This does that if we want to prepare a menu with the necessary iodine quantity, we praise ourselves for a plate of scampi (rehogadas, for example), which we can accompany on approximately 100 grams of green Jewish women, a few radishes and half red onion. Since you see, the vegetable is key in this type of micronutrient.

But we have more ways of coming to that one 100 % of the recommended daily quantity (CDR). For example, the wholemeal bread (a slice), 250 grams of strawberries, a natural your, a small piece of black chocolate (one or two ounces, not more) or a milk glass. These are some of the food that make your ingestion of necessary iodine possible throughout one day. There is other food that also can help you to obtain the necessary iodine, like the sardines, the pineapple, the clams, the cockles, the Norway lobsters, the mussels or the garlic, between others.

One of the moments key to take the necessary iodine quantity is during the pregnancy. For it, this mineral is key in the development of the future baby.

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