HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Iron is an essential element for blood production. About 70 percent of your body’s iron is found in the red blood cells of your blood called hemoglobin and in muscle cells called myoglobin . Hemoglobin is essential for transferring oxygen in your blood from the lungs to the tissues.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hemoglobin contains iron, which allows it to pick up oxygen from the air we breathe and deliver it everywhere in the body. You can think of hemoglobin as the iron ("heme"), oxygen transport protein, ("globin") found in red blood cells. It’s the hemoglobin that gives red blood cells their color, too.

Detailed explanation-3: -Iron is responsible for the production of hemoglobin, a protein that allows red blood cells (image at R red blood cell) to carry oxygen to every part of your body. It’s also a component of myoglobin, which is similar to hemoglobin but found in muscle cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -During this process of absorption, oxygen combines with iron and is transported into the plasma portion of blood by binding to transferrin. From there, iron and transferrin are used in the production of hemoglobin, stored in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, and utilized as needed by all body cells.