The claimEvidence D · marketing folklore
Feeling depleted? Take something that builds qi and blood
The evidence
The phrase bundles at least four different situations, told apart by hemoglobin and ferritin; the non-heme iron in foods like jujube is low and poorly absorbed, with no human evidence it corrects iron-deficiency anemia.
The mechanism, in brief
Putting the previous screens together answers a question many people are actually asking: what does bu qi xue — the folk phrase for building qi and blood — map onto inside the body?
Sources (3)
- Camaschella, C. (2015). Iron-deficiency anemia. The New England Journal of Medicine, 372(19), 1832–1843.
- Hurrell, R., & Egli, I. (2010). Iron bioavailability and dietary reference values. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 91(5), 1461S-1467S.
- Chen, J., & Tsim, K. W. K. (2020). A review of edible jujube, the Ziziphus jujuba fruit: a health food supplement for anemia prevalence. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 11, 593655.