Spinach is a very essential vegetable especially in a vegetarian diet. It is the easiest way to provide for a lot of essential nutrients without simultaneously adding much to the calorie count. But now with the E.Coli outbreak and its association with bagged spinach has put me into a search for a substitute for Spinach.So far I haven’t found any single food item that can replace spinach.
To get an idea about the loss to my diet I examined the nutrients’ chart for Spinach.
Looking at this chart below and comparing it with various other food items, I could only conclude that if I have to compensate for the loss of spinach in my diet I will have to workout a meal with a combinaiton of various food items.
While my search is on…( and I will soon post some great meal ideas to fill in for the absence of Spinach), I would like to share with you a website which gives a good overview of healthy food items and their detailed nutritional benefits. It is called “the world’s healthiest food” and the link to the website is http://www.whfoods.org/.
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September 24, 2006 at 10:59 pm
timely post with all the spinach news. i have had to stop eating spinach, which i love, because of the need to take coumadin, a blood thinner. i can’t eat foods with a lot of vitamin k, and i miss my salads and such.