Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Popeye and Spinach

Everyone knows about Popeye the Sailorman [maybe not everyone...]
and how he gains superhuman strength by gulping down a giant can of spinach, many people think that it was inspired by the faulty information of spinach's iron content.

In 1870 E. von Wolf, a german scientist misplaced a decimal point, a mistake which led people to think that spinach had ten times more iron then it actually had! It took about sixty years for people to notice this mistake and fix it.

Other sources however believe that Popeye's spinach was inspired by the high vitamin A content, whatever it is, Spinach can't be bad for you, or can it?

Spinach is said to be one of the most heavily pesticide contaiminated vegetables.

It would seem like Organic is the best to go.

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