Dietary sources Good sources of dietary iron include red meat, fish, poultry, lentils, beans, leaf vegetables, tofu, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, fortified bread, and fortified breakfast cereals. Iron in low amounts's found in molasses, teff and farina. Iron in meat (haem iron)'s more easily absorbed than iron in vegetables, but heme/hemoglobin from red meat has effects which may increase the likelihood of colorectal cancer. Iron provided by dietary supplements's often found as iron (II) fuma… (More on Iron)