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the leaf that lied about iron and still got famous for it
means A leafy green vegetable, eaten raw or cooked, prized for its mild earthy flavor and nutritional content.
from From Middle English 'spinach,' via Old French 'espinache' or 'espinoche,' which traces back through Medieval Latin 'spinachium' to Arabic 'isfānākh' — itself borrowed from Persian 'aspanākh.' The plant traveled westward with the Arab world's gardeners and merchants, carrying its Persian name along the trade routes into Europe, where it picked up Latinized spellings on the way. One common notion links the name to Latin 'spina' (thorn), perhaps for the prickly seeds of some varieties — but that's likely a later association rather than the true root, which stays firmly Persian.
- decimal error
- its iron fame came from a misplaced decimal point
- popeye era
- cartoon boosted US spinach sales by a third
- oxalates
- that gritty tooth feeling is mineral crystals biting back
- freezes fine
- frozen often beats fresh in actual nutrients
- clock matters
- loses most vitamin c within days of picking
popeye the sailor man — cartoon character whose superhuman strength came from eating spinach, created in 1929
iron spinach myth — decimal point error in 1870s german study made spinach seem 10x more iron-rich than it actually is