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Get Your Folate With These 9 Whole-Food Sources

Try adding more of these folate-rich foods into your diet.

By Julie Kendrick | Experience LifeMarch 21, 2017

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Source	Amount	Folic-Acid Content
1. Beef liver	3 ounces braised	215 micrograms
2. Lentils	1/2 cup cooked	179 micrograms
3. Spinach	1/2 cup cooked	131 micrograms
4. Sunflower seeds	1 1/2 ounces	101 micrograms
5. Asparagus	4 spears cooked	89 micrograms
6. Turnip greens	1/2 cup cooked	85 micrograms
7. Broccoli	1/2 cup cooked	84 micrograms
8. Brussels sprouts	1/2 cup cooked	47 micrograms
9. Egg yolk	1 large fresh	25 micrograms

This originally appeared as part of “Follow the Folate” in the March 2017 issue of Experience Life.

Julie Kendrick is a food, health, and science writer based in Minneapolis.

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