Saturday, June 30, 2012

Do not preheat your spinach


Do-not-preheat-spinach
Do-not-preheat-spinach

Spinach is a vegetable rich in vitamin K, but also vitamins A and C. Both of these vitamins are antioxidants that help keep the body from free radicals. In addition to good immune, recent research shows that vitamin C works better to fight aging than vitamin E.

Children who love to eat spinach is great because of its rich health benefits for the child. But, there are reasons spinach should not be heated. Repeated heating to oxidize the iron content in spinach, which then change the content of iron is toxic.

In addition, you should pay attention to the process of storage. The longer it is stored in the refrigerator, the higher the levels of nitrite produced. When it reacts with iron in red blood cells, can cause difficulties hemogoblin oxygen binding. As a result, the whole body tissue of oxygen deficiency in humans too. So make sure your family eat spinach just been processed. And do not eat spinach after more than 5 hours of serving. (Parenting/Wrt1)


(Oxidation is the interaction between oxygen molecules and all the different substances)

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