Only one cartoon character eats vegetables before fighting bad guys — Popeye. Whenever he needs some quick muscles, he just eats
some spinach. However, Popeye’s love of spinach was based on a
mistake!
In 1870, a German doctor said that spinach had lots of iron, even more
than red meat. But he had made a mathematical mistake, and put a decimal point
in the wrong place. This made spinach seem ten times richer in iron than it
really is. In 1937 someone finally corrected this mistake. But Popeye couldn’t stop. By then he had been eating spinach for ten years!
Spinach doesn’t really have more iron than other
green vegetables, like broccoli for example. And actually the iron in spinach
is a little difficult to digest. Although spinach is healthy, since it has lots
of Vitamin C, it’s not the best food for building big
muscles.
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