08/26/2020
Spinach is one of those leafy greens that either you love them or you hate them 🤷🏽♀️ It is so great for you and supplies you with so many needed nutrients.
But did you know...
1. Spinach is a native plant of Persia
2. March 26th is National Spinach Day.
3. In the 1930’s U.S. spinach growers credited Popeye with a 33% increase in domestic spinach consumption
4. The spinach growing town of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of Popeye in 1937.
5. Birds Eye’ was the first company to advertise frozen spinach in “Life” magazine in 1949.
6. California is today the US’s #1 grower/supplier of spinach, accounting for almost three quarters (3/4) of national production.
7. Alma, Arkansas holds an annual spinach festival each April
8. In 2005, the national yield of commercial spinach was approximately 350,000 tons and is growing annually.
9. China is the world’s largest spinach producer with 85% of global production.
10. Medieval artists extracted green pigment from spinach to use as an ink or paint.