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.