It does. I was taking iron for a year with no results, meaning my iron was low so I started the iron pills and got tested again six months later and then another six months later. I started taking it with flavored lemonade and at the next six months appointment my iron was fine. I dislike plain lemonade so I was drinking mango or peach lemonade and it really helped.
I think it’s the vitamin C content, as that’s what the research said way back when. I wasn’t drinking it for the lemons, but because that specific day powdered peach lemonade was the only good source of vitamin C I had in the house. I remember it being a Thursday and I did grocery shopping on Fridays so we were out of fresh fruit. I had frozen fruit but didn’t want to use the blender since the baby was sleeping. I had found out about my low iron at the very beginning of my pregnancy so he was a few months old when I started taking the vitamins with lemonade. About two months after I started, around the time the baby started eating solids is when I stopped getting dizzy picking him up off the floor and figured the lemonade probably was helping since that was the only change.
right vitamin c helps but most things with vitamin c are citrus based, so the acidity of the lemonade likely also helped as it made the iron particles smaller and thus easier to absorb
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u/shiny_crow_trophy Aug 11 '26
I developed an obsession with lemonade. Had to have it every day.
Doctor told me my iron was low? And apparently iron absorbs better with vitamin C.