id love to hear your views about eating cold spinach out of the packet. I have heard people say its not beneficial as the body dosnt take in all the nutrients however others swear by it. Any thoughts?
good luck with your diet, great inspiration to others.
Interesting question about the spinach. I too have heard that not all the nutrients in spinach are available when you eat the leaves raw. I have also heard this can be helped with citrus, that by combining oranges say or other vitamin C rich foods with raw spinach you get more of the benefits of both.
I hate to weigh in on either point because I am neither a nutritionist nor scientist. And like a lot of other people, I get a little desensitized by all the information that we get about food and nutrition. I'd like to think our bodies do a pretty good job of telling us what is good for us. I hope that is true. But then I try to remember whether I felt any different about eggs when the official word came down that they were off the naughty list and on the nice list again. Did I always know the lovely egg for what it is, one of nature's most perfect foods? Hmm not sure. I only remember feeling happy and relieved when that happened.
I did just have raw spinach today with blueberries and carrots and balsamic vinegar, and loved it, mostly for the way it tasted though.
Thanks for reading and responding.