Spinach Secrets

Spinach is like a super veggie, packed full of vitamins and minerals with only 30 calories and 4 grams of fiber per cup. This gives us energy and vitality to kick butt everyday. There are 5 secrets that spinach holds and I’m about to give them to you.

  1. The best way to eat spinach is fresh and raw versus frozen/ twice cooked, because it will keep all the nutrients that it has to offer.
  2. Cooking/sauteing fresh spinach can have increases in nutrition benefits by cooking out the oxalic acid that interferes with absorption of other vitamins and minerals.
  3. To help absorb iron eat spinach with foods that are high in vitamin C such as peas, tomatoes, broccoli, Kale, and bell peppers. Sounds like a really good salad.
  4. Spinach helps with digestion by protecting the stomach lining and flushing toxins from the colon.
  5. Baby and mature leaf spinach hold the same nutrients but baby leaves tend to be better for salad and mature for cooking.

Storage Tips:

  • Don’t wash the leaves before storing.
  • It will keep for 4 days if bought in a sealed plastic bag from the store.
  • Buy bright green leaves because they hold the most nutrients.

helpful nutritional facts from healthy lifestyle secretsSecret: When Popeye the sailor was a popular television show, Americans ate 33% more spinach in 1931.

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