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...Spinach, since it is unpleasant and therefore regarded as nutritious, was long over-rated as a food source of Vitamin A (good for eyes), Vitamin C (good against infectious diseases and scurvy), iron (good for blood) and calcium (good for bones). Hence it is sold fresh, frozen, sieved & canned, dried & powdered, and powdered & compressed into tablets. Discussion of its merits has gone so far that the American Medical Association's Council on Foods decided to rejudge this best studied of all edible leaves...
Last week the Council on Foods reported its matured findings thus: "Spinach may be regarded as a rich source of Vitamin A and as a contributor of Vitamin C,* iron and roughage to the diet. It is therefore a valuable food. [But] the iron is not well utilized by infants . . . [and] the feeding of spinach is of no value during early infancy as a source of calcium...
...Drying spinach, however, completely destroys Vitamin...
Vegetables and fruits formerly were not a common source of illness. Over-ripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that has been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation...
...corpses of four of Mrs. Hahn's former friends had been examined, a variation in the monotonous pattern of Mrs. Hahn's past finally appeared. This was a hardy sexagenarian named George Heis, for whom the only consequences of a late evening snack of beer, pancakes, spinach, arsenic and croton oil, prepared by Mrs. Hahn, was partial paralysis and indigestion. Still hale enough to be wheeled into court, George Heis quavered out the most damaging testimony at her trial - for which the prosecution had picked the case of Jacob Wagner apparently at random...