Spinach - Green Gold

Editor's Choice Main Category: Spinach is said to have come from Persia. It would first have been cultivated regularly when the Graeco-Roman civilization was at its height. It was in 1929 that the cartoon 'Popeye' was first screened displaying a sailor-man who consumed spinach by the tin-full, and got instant and spectacular muscle boosts from it. However, the idea that spinach contains enormous amounts of iron, good for building healthy blood and a strong body, is ill-founded. Funnily enough, it was due to the mistake of a researcher who placed the decimal point in the wrong place when analyzing spinach, and therefore concluded inaccurate iron content. That does not matter, however, as spinach have plenty more to offer as outlined below. In fact, when compared calorie for calorie to other vegetables, nothing is as nutrient... [read full story]