Journal of Healthy Living

Spinach: A Nutrient Packed Superfood

Popeye used to eat the stuff by the can when he needed a little ‘pick me up’ against that brute Bruno. I like to grab a whole bunch whenever I make a salad. What is this awesome leafy green? None other than Spinach. Spinach is a leafy green vegetable that is packed with an incredible amount of goodness and is readily available to most American grocery shoppers. It is low on the calorie count but high on important nutrients like Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Manganese, folate, magnesium, iron, and scores of others.

Are you a proponent anti-oxidants? If so, you probably already know about spinach because researches have identified at least thirteen phytonutrient flavonoids that act as anti-oxidants and the reason why researchers have created extracts to use in studies to investigate it further.

My wife and I have been trying to eat more vegetables and thankfully two of our favorites are spinach and broccoli, another superfood. If you’re a salad eater, skip the iceberg lettuce (which is mostly water), and instead grab some field greens and throw some spinach on there. That minor change will help improve your health even more so than before and helps reduce those hunger pangs that strike.

WHFoods: Spinach