#thursdaythrive   All about Spinach!

• In the 1930’s U.S. spinach growers credited Popeye with a 33% increase in domestic spinach consumption.
• The spinach growing town of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of Popeye in 1937.
• Medieval artists extracted green pigment from spinach to use as an ink or paint.
• Spinach is best eaten fresh. It loses nutritional properties with each passing day.
• Oxalate, found in spinach, may cause kidney stones in some predisposed individuals.
• California produces 74 percent of the fresh spinach grown in the United States.