2. Nuts - You can eat them raw or sprinkle them over your salad, nuts won't just make your meal delicious but also make you real healthy. The kind of nuts with the highest iron content would be cashew nuts. Every 30 grams serving of cashew nuts can provide around 2mg of iron. You can also munch on almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts and pine nuts.

3. Red Meat - There are endless studies that discredit red meat because of its alleged ties with obesity and cancer, but there's no denying that red meat is one of the best sources of iron. It contains Heme iron, which is readily absorbed by the body and restores iron in your body.

4. Chia Seeds and Pumpkin Seeds - Pumpkin seeds, known as 'pepita' or 'pepita de calabaz' (little seeds of squash) in Spanish are creamy, crispy and bite-sized seeds of the pumpkin fruit. They make a terrific snack-on-the-go and are also rich in iron. You can eat pumpkin seeds raw or the slightly roasted ones. Chia seeds are small, black and crunchy seeds that are not just high in iron but also a great source of calcium and magnesium.

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