What forms/combinations do minerals inside food come in?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 28 Mar 17:15
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If you take a supplement with minerals, there’s often different forms but when it comes to actual food, its always just the isolated mineral.

How do you figure out what form each mineral takes? Like, foods that have a bunch of magnesium in it, what form of Mg is it usually? Oxide?

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz on 28 Mar 18:40 collapse

They should be in the ingredients list. Mine says, “Calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide…”

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 19:44 collapse

I mean like for foods where magnesium/mineral is not an ingredient so much as a constituent nutrient.

Like hemp seeds have a ton of magnesium. What form of magnesium or whatever mineral that is a natural part they’ve identified in it