Anemia is a disease that appears due to a decrease in hemoglobin in red blood cells. This condition, which can be caused by blood loss, due to the lack of production of red blood cells due to their destruction, affects approximately 1,620 million people worldwide, which corresponds to 24.8 percent of the population, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Although it can affect anyone, its incidence is higher in school-age children (47.4 percent), especially that caused by lack of iron, also called iron-deficiency anemia, since babies and children of of growth need more of this mineral than the rest of people.

This lack of iron can affect multiple organs in the body and is usually caused, to a greater extent, by the absence of said mineral in the diet. The main solution to this problem lies in the oral intake of iron, but also in a change in nutrition that may lie in the introduction of the following foods in the daily diet...

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