The number of Britons switching to a plant-based diet has nearly doubled in a decade, but some experts believe these diets are contributing to low iron levels.
In fact, nearly half of girls aged 11 to 18 have critically low intakes of the mineral, due in part to a fall in red meat consumption in recent years, Professor Ian Givens, director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at Reading University, said in a media briefing recently.
Teenage girls get only around half of the recommended 14.8 mg of iron a day, while older women fare just a little better, according to figures from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey.
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