What are the benefits of eating spinach?
Spinach, Chenopodiaceae Spinach is an annual or biennial herb. Also known as spinach, Persian grass. Edible for leaves and tender stems. Native to Persia, cultivated 2000 years ago. Later spread to North Africa, from the Moors to Western Europe and Spain and other countries. Spinach was introduced to the Tang Dynasty in 647. The main root of spinach is developed, the fleshy root is red, and the taste is sweet and edible. Spinach is a cold-resistant vegetable, a long-sun plant.
Spinach helps prevent brain aging
American experts have found that spinach can help prevent the aging of the brain. After the researchers carried out an 8-month diet control experiment on mice, they found that the nerve cell information transmission of the mice has been significantly enhanced, and this information transmission is very important for movement, learning and control. Similarly, the experimental observation that the elderly eat a certain amount of spinach and strawberries every day also proves that eating more spinach can help reduce the common memory loss of the elderly. Researchers believe that spinach contains a lot of antioxidants, which have anti-aging and promote cell proliferation, and can activate brain function and enhance youthful vitality.
Spinach may reduce the risk of retinal degeneration
Another Harvard study found that eating spinach 2-4 times a week in the elderly can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration. Researchers analyzed that spinach can protect eyesight because it contains a carotenoid in the body converted into vitamin A, which helps maintain normal vision and epithelial cell health. Spinach is also higher in protein, vitamin B2 and inorganic salts such as iron and phosphorus than many vegetables.
How to choose the quality of spinach?
High-quality spinach: bright green color, no withered yellow leaves and spotted leaves, strong plants, neat and continuous, bundled into bundles, no mud on the roots, no bolting, no rotten leaves.
Secondary spinach: dull color, soft leaves couch, not fresh, mud on the roots, bundles of debris, plants are incomplete, damaged and broken.
Inferior spinach: bolting flowering, unclean, insect leaves and frost mold leaves, withered yellow leaves and rotten leaves.
Seeing that spinach has so many benefits, let's take a look at what spinach can do: stir-fry, you can also make soup, if you have enough patience, it tastes great when made into a cake! Finally, a reminder that the most nutritious part of spinach is actually the red root at the bottom, don't throw it away.
