Spinach is one of the green vegetables that all Vietnamese families love, often appearing in daily meals.Not only delicious, this vegetable also brings abundant nutrition for health.

According to USDA - US Department of Agriculture, spinach can provide large amounts of essential nutrients such as sodium, lipid, potassium, fiber, carbohydrate, protein, magnesium, calcium, iron and many vitamins such as: vitaminsA, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, ... Cool attributes, as well as many nutrients, spinach is highly appreciated when bringing the following great benefits for human health:

1. Prevent osteoporosis

One of the typical effects of spinach is to prevent osteoporosis in humans.Accordingly, this vegetable contains a lot of vitamin K - a fat -soluble vitamin that the body needs to produce bone regeneration proteins, helping bones strong.In spinach, the content of calcium is also high in contributing to helping bones and joints, preventing osteoporosis especially in the elderly.

2. Eye protection

Thanks to the abundant amount of vitamin A, spinach is also a food that helps to nourish the eyes and eyes, prevent cataracts and impaired vision effectively.Women should feed children a lot to improve and protect eye health.

3. Good for the liver

Spinach is like "king vegetables" especially when on hot summer days.According to Oriental medicine, this is a welding vegetable, sour, benign vegetables, not only a nutritious, delicious dish but also a cool vegetable that is very good for the process of detox, purifying the body, beauty, beautyskin, effective treatment for pimples.Spinach also has a mild diuretic effect, helping to enhance the elimination of toxic substances from the body through urine, reducing the burden on the liver.

4. Anti -oxidant, cancer

Cancer has always been an obsessive disease for humans.So we often seek many ways to fight this disease.In particular, spinach is also known as a vegetable with antioxidant ability, preventing the possibility of cancer in the body.

Accordingly, vegetable leaves contain a lot of antioxidant carotenoid pigments such as beta-carotene, zeaxantin and lutein.These antioxidants have the effect of neutralizing harmful free radicals created by the body.In addition, the abundant amount of vitamin A in this vegetable not only helps protect the eyes but also helps protect the body from the risk of lung cancer and throat cancer effectively.

5. Immune improvement

In spinach, the high amount of vitamin C helps our bodies increase immunity, reduce the risk of disease and sickness.Perhaps that is why spinach is a food that is often present in the family kitchen.

6. Help lose weight, beautiful shape

According to Dr. Renita D'Souza - Bachelor at the University of Health Sciences Rajiv Gandhi, India, the typical mucus of spinach is called pectin, with laxative, cooling, slimming and anti -obesity..In addition, this pectin mucus also has the ability to absorb cholesterol, when entering the body will lock the membrane and cling to the intestinal wall.As a result, cholesterol cannot enter the bloodstream but follow the defecation line, helping you prevent disease and lose weight effectively.

3 groups of people should not eat spinach

Spinach is a vegetable containing many beneficial substances for health, helping to prevent many diseases.However, the following 3 groups of people should not consume this vegetable because it may be dangerous to the body:

1. People with kidney stones

Spinach contains many purines - an organic compound when entering the body will turn into uric acid that increases the risk of developing kidney stones.The oxalic acids in spinach increases the concentration of calcium oxalate in urine, leading to growing kidney stones.

2. People with stomach pain

The large fiber content in spinach can make the stomach uncomfortable when eating a lot.So people with stomach pain should not eat spinach.

3. People are suffering from diarrhea

When diarrhea, usually the abdomen will be very weak, but spinach has welding, so when eaten, it will make diarrhea worse.

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