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> that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach Serious question: what is wrong with raw spinach because I eat it all the time
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
> that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach
Serious question: what is wrong with raw spinach because I eat it all the time
- maxqin1 6y agoOxalic acid [1]. Could cause kidney stones especially if combined with other factors that may predispose you to having them. Simply cooking the spinach can remove most of it. Personally, I ate an amount of spinach that made me an outlier(think the maximum you could fit on a foot long subway sandwich often daily for a couple years, and that was also combined with other poor choices like gas station big gulp sodas. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid