Session One Information Card
Spinach
 
  • This is a green, leafy vegetable which
    grows above the ground

  • We can pick the leaves off the plant to
    eat and it will grow new leaves for us!

  • Spinach is full of the vitamins A,B,C,K
    and it also has iron and calcium

  • A good for eyesight, B for overall good
    health, C for skin, teeth and bones, K for
    healing wounds, iron for healthy blood and
    calcium for strong bones

  • Spinach is best steamed and not boiled

  • 1 cereal bowl of spinach = one 5-a-day portion

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