sources of calcium?

[Purl]

I'm worried that my dc aren't getting enough calcium. Not sure of good sources. My 2 year old's ENTIRE diet consists of cashews, bananas, almond butter with honey, raisins and water. That's it. My older dc aren't quite RAW, they eat gluten-free bread for sandwiches, and brown rice with raisins and maple syrup for breakfast, but I just don't know what to feed them. I have taken them off dairy, but don't know how to make sure they are getting enough calcium...any advice? :confused:

[Rawkinlocs]

Here is a nice little list of what foods contain how much calcium that was posted by a member a while back:

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For anyone concerned or curious about the amount of calcium they or their kids are getting...I found this list & found it interesting & helpful.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/grou...lk/message/1928

A 100-gram portion of human breast milk (3.5 ounces) contains
33 milligrams of calcium. Human adults need calcium too, but
human adults should not be drinking human breast milk. Let's
compare the amounts of calcium contained in adult foods to
the level of calcium in human breast milk:

Calcium content of foods (per 100-gram portion)
(100 grams equals around 3.5 ounces)

1. Human Breast Milk 33 mg
2. Almonds 234 mg (your almond butter)
3. Amaranth 267 mg
4. Apricots (dried) 67 mg
5. Artichokes 51 mg
6. Beans (can: pinto, black) 135 mg
7. Beet greens (cooked) 99 mg
8. Blackeye peas 55 mg
9. Bran 70 mg
10. Broccoli (raw) 48 mg
11. Brussel Sprouts 36 mg
12. Buckwheat 114 mg
13. Cabbage (raw) 49 mg
14. Carrot (raw) 37 mg
15. Cashew nuts 38 mg
16. Cauliflower (cooked) 42 mg
17. Swiss Chard (raw) 88 mg
18. Chickpeas (garbanzos) 150 mg
19. Collards (raw leaves) 250 mg
20. Cress (raw) 81 mg
21. Dandelion greens 187 mg
22. Endive 81 mg
23. Escarole 81 mg
24. Figs (dried) 126 mg
25. Filberts (Hazelnuts) 209 mg
26. Kale (raw leaves) 249 mg
27. Kale (cooked leaves) 187 mg
28. Leeks 52 mg
29. Lettuce (lt. green) 35 mg
30. Lettuce (dark green) 68 mg
31. Molasses (dark-213 cal.) 684 mg
32. Mustard Green (raw) 183 mg
33. Mustard Green (cooked) 138 mg
34. Okra (raw or cooked) 92 mg
35. Olives 61 mg
36. Orange (Florida) 43 mg
37. Parsley 203 mg
38. Peanuts (roasted & salted) 74 mg
39. Peas (boiled) 56 mg
40. Pistachio nuts 131 mg
41. Potato Chips 40 mg
42. Raisins 62 mg
43. Rhubarb (cooked) 78 mg
44. Sauerkraut 36 mg
45. Sesame Seeds 1160 mg
46. Squash (Butternut 40 mg
47. Soybeans 60 mg
48. Sugar (Brown) 85 mg
49. Tofu 128 mg
50. Spinach (raw) 93 mg
51. Sunflower seeds 120 mg
52. Sweet Potatoes (baked) 40 mg
53. Turnips (cooked) 35 mg
54. Turnip Greens (raw) 246 mg
55. Turnip Greens (boiled) 184 mg
56. Water Cress 151 mg

[Purl]

COOL! Thanks so much! I think I'm gonna print it out and post that on the fridge.

[Angelina]

SESAME Seeds or Tahini (which I love)..now the catch is that it has to be unhulled sesame seeds, which up until now I had only seed Tahini made with "mechanically" hulled sesame; and if you check the label, you'll see that it isn't so high in calcium. However if you pick up a bag of unhulled sesame, you'll see that its very high in calcium (and from what I've heard, a very useable form also) ~ so two options make your own or buy Artisana ~ which although the label doesn't specify unhulled, but check out the calcium and its very high, which leads me to believe it has to be the unhulled (which are also very akaline) I love to mix it with carob (which is also high in calcium) voila..instant calcium that also kicks my choco cravings.

[exurb]

1 cup sesame seeds has 1404 mg calcium. I agree with sesame milk as a potential high source of calcium.

I'm concerned that I see no B-12 in their diet at all - I would do some research about that. You could start with the article by Gabriel Cousens in the reference section here.

Thanks Rawkinlocs for that great list.