 Get the Most Out of Your Spinach Your daily dose of health information selected by WebMD physician editors. The sooner you eat that fresh spinach in your refrigerator, the better. In fact, if you aren't going to cook fresh spinach promptly, you might want to consider frozen or canned spinach as an alternative, researchers suggest. Fresh from the ground, spinach is packed with healthy nutrients, including folate -- a B vitamin that helps prevent the birth defect spina bifida -- and carotenoids, a form of vitamin A that's needed for development and may also protect against blindness and cancer. But these healthy nutrients don't stick around for long. In your refrigerator, spinach loses about half of these healthy nutrients after eight days. This happens even faster if stored above the normal 40-degree refrigerator temperature. Keep fresh spinach cool and minimize storage time. Consider canned and frozen spinach as other options if you can't eat it soon after buying it.
SOURCE: WebMD Medical News: "How to Get the Most From Your Spinach." |
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