Wednesday 17 August 2011

SPINACH

Spinach is a plant commonly grown for its leaves are consumed as green vegetables. These plants originated from tropical America but now dispersed throughout the world. This plant is known as vegetable sources of iron are important.

Spinach is a vegetable commonly known only in East Asia and Southeast Asia, so called in English as Chinese amaranth. In Indonesia and Malaysia, spinach is often misinterpreted to be "spinach" in English, even though that name refers to other types of leafy vegetables - see Spinach (Spinacia).



At the consumer level, there are two kinds of spinach vegetables: spinach and spinach pull quotes. Spinach stringed upright growing broadleaf and large (up to two meters) and young leaves of fresh vegetables eaten primarily as ointment, and after being fed fried flour. Spinach leaves and remove the smaller sized grown for a short time (a maximum of 25 days), more suitable for thin soup made ​​of vegetables such as spinach and vegetable bobor. Spinach quotation is usually derived from the type A. hybridus (spinach snapper) and spinach unplug mainly taken from A. tricolor. Other species are also used is A. spinosus (spinach thorn) and A. blitum (spinach kotok).

The content of iron in spinach is relatively higher than other leaf vegetables (iron is a constituent of cytochrome, a protein involved in photosynthesis) that is useful for patients with anemia.

Several cultivars of A. tricolor has leaves red or white and used as an ornamental plant, although it can also disayur. Other ornamental plant species is A. caudatus as long bunches of red flowers hang like a tail. In the place of origin, used spinach seeds as a source of carbohydrate. These seeds are now also popular as a diet food because it does not cause obesity.

Roots riding spinach is also used as medicine.

Ingredients and Benefits: Spinach, especially red spinach, well-known iron-containing high blood adds merit. In addition, spinach also contains vitamins A, B, C, and C, potassium and phosphorus.

usefulness:
1. Anaemia, Dysentery, Ambien, Fever, Smooth milk, dilute Phlegm, Strengthens liver Eating 
    red boiled spinach.
2. Insect bites
    A few spinach leaves pounded, then affixed to the part that stung.
3. Taxable caterpillar hairs
    Some spinach stems crushed, and squeezed. Drinking water, 3x a day.

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