#spatone apple sachets also come with vitamin c added and taste like sour candy yay

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Regular reminder that things like calcium and tannins actively interfere with iron absorption when you take supplements (aka don't drink tea or dairy or calcium tablets when you take them), and taking it with vitamin C actively helps iron be absorbed.

There was a TikTok post about an advertisement for “blood-making pills for weak women” someone found in a newspaper from the 1890s and everybody seemed to think it was just an example of the weird misogyny of the day and age but no. Anemia was a massive public health concern. It always has been through history but part of the reason we have this idea of old timey women thought history being physical weak, chronically cold and pale and fainting is because they often they were. Anemia was also a massive problem for men in that day but even now it disproportionally affects people who menstruate. So tonics full of stimulants and “healthful vitamins” were marketed at young women in pages upon pages of advertisements in every newspaper. People generally felt like shit all the time back then.