spinach

Everyday

Spinach is a dark green leafy vegetable that can be eaten raw in salads or cooked. tree →

In the lessons

In food and health lessons, spinach is a healthy vegetable with vitamins (A, C, K), folate and iron. In cartoons, Popeye the Sailor eats a can of spinach to get super strong. Spinach shrinks a lot when cooked. Phrases: «baby spinach», «spinach leaves», «spinach and ricotta».

Examples

• Mum puts spinach in the pasta sauce. tree →
• Popeye eats spinach to get strong. tree →
• A big pile of spinach shrinks to a small spoonful when you cook it. tree →
• We grew spinach in the school garden. tree →
• Baby spinach is nice in a salad. tree →
• Spinach has lots of vitamins. tree →
• And certainly it was a cow, a fine red cow, fat and flourishing, and looking as if it had been fed all its days on spinach. tree →

Note

Uncountable: «some spinach», not «a spinach» or «spinaches». Say SPIN-itch. Myth: spinach is not unusually high in iron; an old story says a decimal-point mistake made people think so, but that story is itself doubtful. Also, the iron in spinach is not easy for the body to take in.