Spinach benefits

Spinach is a flowering vegetable plant having edible leaves. This blog contains spinach benefits for human health and vast spinach nutrition facts. 

Spinach is known as Palak in Urdu and Hindi languages. Palak recipes are much famous and can be eaten raw or cooked like palak paneer, palak aloo, palak soup, palak dal, palak chicken and much more. Spinach is a versatile vegetable for its health benefits. Spinach nutrition benefits can be achieved by spinach cooking or spinach recipes. Talking about spinach we can not overlooked its delicious and famous dishes including spinach quiche, spinach omelette and spinach rice.

One cup of raw spinach contains following

2,813 micrograms of Vitamin A

27 calories

30 milligrams of calcium

0.86 grams of protein

58 micrograms of folate

167 milligrams of potassium

24 milligrams of magnesium

Spinach also rich in vitamin K, fiber, phosphorus and thiamine.

Spinach have high quantity of iron, it  plays a central role in the function of red blood cells which help in transporting oxygen around the body, in energy production and DNA synthesis. Spinach is also an excellent source of vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C and folate as well as being a good source of manganese, magnesium, iron and vitamin B2. That is why spinach  increase the Man power, stamina and fix our body strongly.