Top 9 Health Benefits of Spinach
Remember Popeye, the sailor man? Well, all our parents used him as a reference to force that little morsel of spinach down our throats into our stomach. Spinach has always been considered by everyone as a bitter tasting green leafy vegetable which is extremely good for health. Irony is that we ignore the fact that it does wonders to our body only because it doesn`t taste good. Factually speaking, spinach is not bitter. There are many scrumptious dishes that can be made using spinach. But before that, we need to get that desire to eat spinach. Here are a few health benefits of spinach. Next time you try to feed spinach to your children, you necessarily need not use Popeye`s name. Listed here are some of the health benefits of spinach.
1. Spinach is loaded with a plethora of minerals, vitamins and other important elements like thiamine and riboflavin.
2. Spinach helps in building a good eyesight. The beta carotene, lutein and xanthene present in spinach prevents Vitamin A deficiency diseases.
3. A good news to all the health conscious persons out there, spinach is proven to curb overeating and also maintains proper blood pressure.
4. Spinach juice, though might not sound very appealing, is actually a very good source of all the vitamins and minerals. It is also proven that drinking spinach juice is better than eating spinach. This is because, the juice has more amount of nutrients than one serving of spinach has.
