Dear Dr. Gourmet,

I came across your recipes on the internet and am wondering if when taking Coumadin and not being able to eat anything with vitamin K or iron, why do most of your recipes have foods with iron as well. Iron also has blood clotting properties. Could you direct me to recipes without K or iron?

A: Dr. Gourmet Says...

Iron does not have blood clotting properties but is a key part of red blood cells. There is sometimes confusion because iron is an important part of hemoglobin, the molecule inside red blood cells that carries oxygen.

There is a long list of the recipes that are low in Vitamin K on the Dr. Gourmet web site just for folks like you. You can find that link here: http://www.drgourmet.com/warfarin/warfarinrecipes.shtml

There's other info that can help you on this page: http://www.drgourmet.com/warfarin/index.shtml

Thanks for writing,

Dr. Gourmet