I meant the total amount of calcium in a particular food vs the amount of calcium actually absorbed by the body and/or leached out of the system from other components in said foodstuff.
NZers consume a shitload of milk/dairy products and look at our osteoporosis rates. If dairy products were so shit hot we wouldn't have a problem would we? Therefore how much calcium is absorbed in one's system is obviously IMO far more complicated than just what calcium content a particular food has.
What seems more important to me is ensuring we have enough vit D, vit K magnesium etc which are essential for calcium absorbtion. And limit soda's, alcohol, refined foods etc
I hardly eat quinoa, but I just see it as another useful grain to be eaten alongside Oats, wheat, and rice legumes etc in a varied diet. Eating just quinoa would be pretty obsessive wouldn't it? How many would do that?
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Therefore I'm pretty sceptical of comparing anything to milk, as if its some sort of "gold standard"

The point of this thread isn't that...