Because it is difficult to excrete iron once it is in the body, iron balance is maintained primarily through absorption. The iron storage protein captures iron from food and stores it in the mucosal cells of the small intestine. When the body needs iron, the storage protein releases some iron to an iron transport protein called . If the body does not need iron, the dietary iron is carried out when the intestinal cells are shed (every 3 to 5 days) and excreted in the feces.

True or False

The given question is not true and false it has some of its missing. It has missing blanks at the place storage protein ferritin and transport protein called transferrin.

Explanation:

If is difficult the iron inside the body. It is ingested by the food that we eat. The iron is stored in the body in the mucosal cells.

The iron inside the body is made to store in the mucosal cells by the help of iron storage protein called ferritin.

The mucosal cells of the intestine sheds after every 3 or 4 days. In case the stored iron in the body is not utilized it is shed along with the mucosal cells of the body.

Hence, the given statement is True.