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What Is Calcium?

Healthy bones and teeth depend on getting enough calcium in your diet
Food Sources of Calcium
Food Sources of Calcium

Calcium-rich foods include milk products (milk, cheese and yogourt), calcium fortified beverages and tofu, canned salmon or sardines with bones, cooked beans, almonds, bok choy, kale and broccoli. Milk and dairy products are the foods from which calcium is most readily absorbed in the body.

Milk
1 cup
300 mg
Plain yogourt
3/4 cup
355 mg
Fruit yogourt
3/4 cup
267 mg
Tofu with calcium sulphate
3/4 cup
400 mg
Cheddar cheese
1-1/2 oz
360 mg
Vanilla ice cream
1 cup
195 mg
Cottage cheese
1 cup
165 mg
Fortified soy milk
1 cup
300 mg
Fortified orange juice
1 cup
300 mg
Salmon canned with edible bones
1/2 cup
200 mg
Sesame seeds
1/4 cup
356 mg
Almonds
1/4 cup
80 mg
Soybeans, cooked
1 cup
185 mg
Blackstrap molasses
1 tbsp
185 mg
Dried figs
1/2 cup
124 mg
Kale, raw
1 cup
96 mg
Broccoli, cooked
1 cup
66 mg
Orange
1 med
65 mg
Bread, white or whole wheat
1 slice
25 mg
Bran muffin
1 medum
14 mg


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