About Folate

Functions

  • Necessaty for the production and maintenance of new cells(especially, infancy and pregnant)
  • Needed to make DNA and RNA
  • Helps prevent changes to DNA that may lead to cancer
  • Needed to make normal red blood cells and prevent anemia

Recommended Dietary Allowance(Female in 20's, healty, non-pregnant)

  • 400mcg

Selected foods on the list are high or realtively high in folate

Asparagus

Beef

Beets

Black beans

Brussels sprouts

Chicken liver

Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans)

　

Cowpeas (Blackeyes)

Enriched rice

Garlic stems

Grapefruits

Green onion

Iceberg lettuce

Kidney beans

Lima beans

Navy beans

Okra

Orange juice

Pak-choi

Pinto beans

Pork

Red pepper

Spinach

Wheat flour enriched

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