Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate

Animal and lab studies only

• Benefit

  Iron absorption from coffee¹

  In lab studies, adding EDTA to iron-fortified coffee raised iron bioaccessibility from 17.40% to 24.14%, and its taste stayed largely similar.

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