Should I avoid iron if I am on Coumadin?

I came across your recipes on the internet and am wondering if when taking Coumadin and not being able to eat anything with vitamin K or iron, why do most of your recipes have foods with iron as well. Iron also has blood clotting properties. Could you direct me to recipes without K or iron?

The Health meets Food Team Says...

Iron does not have blood clotting properties, but it is a key part of red blood cells. There is sometimes confusion because iron is an important part of hemoglobin, the molecule inside red blood cells that carries oxygen.

On the website there is a long list of recipes with safe levels of Vitamin K just for folks like you, and here's general information on living with Coumadin (warfarin).

Thanks for writing.

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