Higher intake of heme iron, the type found in red meat and other animal products -- as opposed to non-heme iron, found mostly in plant-based foods -- was associated with a higher risk of developing ...

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It took an unlikely food innovation—earth-friendly vegetarian patties, made to taste and "bleed" like the familiar meaty ones—to make people aware of heme. In human cells, iron-containing heme is the ...

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Researchers identified a significant link between heme iron—iron found in red meat and other animal products —and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), as well as the metabolic pathways underlying the link.