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Spinach: delicious, nutritive power

Spinach () is an edible annual flowering plant thought to have originated in ancient Persia and was then introduced to India and China where it was known as the “Persian vegetable”. The earliest written record was in China around 647 CE and, by the 12th century, spinach was a popular vegetable in the Arab Mediterranean. Its popularity in England and France in the 14th century was due to it appearing in early spring when there

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