10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPINACH
- Nov 28, 2016
- 1 min read
• Just half a cup of raw spinach counts as 1 of the 5 servings of fruits and vegetables you should eat a day.
• Spinach is a member of the goose-foot family, which makes it a relative to beets and chard
• In the 1930’s U.S. spinach growers credited Popeye with a 33% increase in domestic spinach consumption.
• The spinach growing town of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of Popeye in 1937.
• Spinach leaves are a mild diuretic and mild laxative.
• Medieval artists extracted green pigment from spinach to use as an ink or paint.
• China is the world’s largest spinach producer with 85% of global production.
• Spinach is best eaten fresh. It loses nutritional properties with each passing day.
• Oxalate, found in spinach, may cause kidney stones in some predisposed individuals.
• California produces 74 percent of the fresh spinach grown in the United States.
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