Spinach is very common in our daily life. Its nutritional value is very high, it contains a variety of nutritional elements. And there are many ways to eat in the usual way. You can choose cold mix, stir fry or boil soup. What can't spinach be eaten with? What are the taboos? Let's take a look.
1. Spinach and leek
Some friends like to eat spinach and leek. When making dumplings, they like to mix spinach and leek together to make stuffing, which will cause diarrhea.
2. Spinach and cucumber
Cucumber contains vitamin C decomposing enzyme, while spinach is rich in vitamin C, so they should not be eaten together. The vitamin C in spinach is destroyed by the catabolic enzyme in cucumber.
3. Spinach and tofu
Tofu mainly contains protein, fat and calcium. Both of them will waste valuable calcium. Because oxalic acid can react with calcium to form insoluble precipitate, which can not be absorbed by human body. Therefore, in order to maintain nutrition, one is to divide spinach and tofu into meals, so that there will be no chemical reaction. Second, you can blanch spinach in the water, let some oxalic acid dissolve in the water, and then boil it with tofu.
7. Spinach and milk
Spinach and other fruits and vegetables containing more oxalic acid will form insoluble precipitates with calcium, which will affect the absorption of calcium in milk.
8. Spinach and cheese
Spinach is equal to cheese. The chemical composition of cheese will affect the absorption of rich calcium in spinach.
9. Spinach and honey
When spinach meets honey, it not only tastes strange, but also causes heartache!
Eating taboo of spinach
1. Avoid scalding without boiling water
Before frying spinach, it should be scalded with boiling water to remove the oxalic acid and astringency contained in spinach. Only when oxalic acid is removed, can calcium in spinach be absorbed by human body. If you don't use boiling water to cook, it will not only affect the taste, but also reduce the nutritional value.
2. avoid root
When people choose spinach, they usually only eat the stems and leaves, mistakenly think that the roots are old and tough and not delicious, but take them off, which is wrong.
Spinach has red roots and green stems and leaves, so for a long time, it has a good name of "red billed green Parakeet". Spinach root has a good therapeutic effect. If it is abandoned, it is a pity.
3. Pregnant women should not eat spinach often
People have always believed that spinach contains a lot of iron and has the function of replenishing blood. Spinach is regarded as an ideal food for pregnant women, children and patients. In fact, the content of iron in spinach is not much, its main component is oxalic acid, and oxalic acid has a devastating effect on zinc and calcium. Because pregnant women need more calcium and zinc than normal people, they should eat more food rich in calcium and zinc from the perspective of maintenance.
4. Children should not eat spinach often
Spinach contains a lot of oxalic acid. If children eat it too much, all kinds of trace elements interact with oxalic acid, especially with calcium, which makes children's bones change, and rickets and chondropathy will occur.
In our life, eating spinach often has great benefits to our human body. It has the functions of bowel catharsis, prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids, promoting growth and development, and enhancing resistance. But there are also taboos. I hope you will pay more attention to your diet in the future.
