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Spinach

Spinach is full of iron and folate. Eating it with something citrusy helps your body absorb more of the iron.

🩸 Iron🦴 Calcium🍊 Vitamin C🌾 Fibre

How it grows

As a low rosette of leaves, picked young and tender.

Where it came from

Persia (modern Iran).

🚚 From field to plate

  1. 1. Sown
  2. 2. Leaves grow
  3. 3. Harvested young
  4. 4. Washed and bagged
  5. 5. Shop
  6. 6. Your salad bowl

🤓 Fun facts

  • A famous cartoon sailor made spinach famous.
  • Spinach shrinks to a tenth of its size when cooked.
  • Vitamin C helps you absorb its iron.