According to Oriental medicine, spinach has sweet and sour taste, cold nature, non-toxic. The main use of spinach is to clear heat, activate colon, balance blood, detoxify.
The outstanding feature of spinach is that it contains a lot of mucus. This mucus effectively helps the digestive system work more smoothly, stimulates bowel movements and has a good laxative effect. Very suitable for the treatment of long-term constipation. People with signs of dry, hard stools, often with abdominal heaviness or bloating, sometimes abdominal pain in the lower or around the navel, should eat spinach to treat the disease effectively.
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Mucus in spinach also works to prevent the absorption of fat in the digestive tract. Therefore, spinach is very useful for people who want to lose weight or patients with dyslipidemia.
The mucus of spinach also has the effect of absorbing cholesterol, endogenous and exogenous cholesterol are retained in the intestine. Because cholesterol is blocked, the fat in food cannot penetrate the intestinal membrane, cholesterol will be excreted in the stool. Obese people who want to lose weight should eat spinach because it has a low heat capacity, and is a diuretic and laxative.
With the above characteristics, according to experts, should not eat more than 2 times / week. People with kidney stones, gout must abstain from this vegetable completely because it will make joint pain worse due to the ability to accumulate uric acid in the body.
Harm of eating too much spinach
Although spinach is full of nutrients (1/2 cup of spinach, when cooked, provides 190% of the vitamin A, 20% of the iron the body needs). However, it should not be abused for the following reasons:
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– Poor absorption: Eating too much spinach makes the body poorly absorbed because it contains a high content of oxalic acid. This is a chemical that has the ability to bind with calcium and iron, making it difficult for the body to absorb other important nutrients.
Therefore, when eating spinach, you should eat it with foods rich in vitamin C such as oranges, lemons, tomatoes, star fruit. Especially eating spinach cooked with star fruit will be very good for the body.
– Kidney stones: Because of the high amount of oxalic acid and purines, eating a lot of spinach converts into uric acid, will increase the concentration of calcium oxalate in the urine, accumulate in the body easily causing gout, kidney stones.
– Causes yellowing, staining teeth: Mucus in spinach, when eaten too much, will form plaque and grit in teeth because it is not soluble in water. From there, your teeth will be black and yellow.
Stomach upset: Spinach has a high fiber content. 1 cup of cooked spinach has 6g of fiber. Too much fiber will slow down the metabolism in the body, leading to indigestion, bloating, and cramps.
How to choose chemical-free spinach
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Choose vegetables based on tops
You should choose bunches of vegetables that have small tops and are dark green, not pale, strong looking, these bunches of spinach are crispy and delicious. In addition, do not choose bunches with long tops, big fat bodies, and lack of light because they are vegetables impregnated with stimulants.
Choose vegetables based on body part
Spinach choose vegetables that have a green color from leaf to stem, many tops, a small number of leaves, the smaller the leaf size, the more delicious the vegetables are.
Choose vegetables based on leaves
You should give fresh leaves, bright surface, shiny. Note do not choose large leaves, few tops, look fat but it is a sprayed vegetable. Also, do not choose bunches of coriander with crushed leaves, wilted and yellow leaves or torn by caterpillars.
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