Iron and Increased Prospective Food Consumption

• Improved Iron Status, but Not Protein Source, Is Related to Appetite, Satiety, and Mood in Women of Reproductive Age With Iron Deficiency: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

  • 2026-06
  • RCT
  • The Journal of nutrition 156(6)
  • • Stephen R Hennigar
    • Katelyn M Miller
    • Robert D Murphy
    • Amy Braymer
    • Christy L Mayet
    • Frank L Greenway
    • Susan N Cheung
    • Camila Weschenfelder
    • Claire E Berryman

  • PubMed: 42061720
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2026.101559

  10 Insights on

  • Increased Prospective Food Consumption

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  changes in transferrin saturation (r = 0.4, P < 0.01) and hemoglobin (r = 0.3, P = 0.04) and hematocrit (r = 0.3, P = 0.03) were positively associated with changes in prospective food consumption

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  once a day for 8 weeks