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    Question ID:   1926         Current Version: 1
Question: What are the best sources of some nutrients you need when you are pregnant or breastfeeding?
Category: Family & Relationships > Parenting
Keywords: diet, food, woman, source, nutrient, nutrition, breastfeeding, pregnant
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Vegetable Group (choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried) 

  • Carrots
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Pumpkin
  • Spinach
  • Cooked greens (such as kale, collards, turnip greens, and beet greens)
  • Winter squash
  • Tomatoes and tomato sauces
  • Red sweet pepper

Fruit Group (choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried) 

Milk Group 

Grain Group 

  • Fortified ready-to-eat cereals
  • Fortified cooked cereals
  • Wheat germ

Meat & Beans Group 

  • Cooked dry beans and peas (such as pinto beans, soybeans, white beans, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas)
  • Nuts and seeds (such as sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, and peanut butter)
  • Lean beef, lamb, and pork
  • Shrimp, clams, oysters, and crab
  • Halibut, cod, rainbow trout, herring, sardines, rockfish, and yellowfin tuna

NOTE: Avoid shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish when you are pregnant or breastfeeding. They contain high levels of mercury.

* The foods on this list are the best sources of one or more of the following nutrients: vitamin A, vitamin E, potassium, and iron. Food sources of these nutrients are included because when choosing a typical mix of food choices in each food group, the intake patterns may not meet dietary standards for pregnant and/or breastfeeding women for these nutrients.

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