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Is spinach an acidic food or an alkaline food?
Spinach is an alkaline food. The acidity and alkalinity of food is not based on taste, but the result of absorption and metabolism in the body after digestion and absorption.

Common alkaline foods are: soybeans, potatoes, bananas, tofu, pears, green beans, onions, apples, spinach, pumpkins, strawberries, lettuce, cucumbers, persimmons, radishes, kelp, milk, carrots, watermelons, tea and so on.

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Spinach is rich in carotene and potassium, which can maintain blood pressure balance and prevent various cancers and heart diseases. Spinach is rich in vitamin A to make eyes bright and beautiful, and B vitamins can treat night blindness and angular stomatitis.

Pregnant women should eat more spinach, because it is beneficial to the development of fetal brain nerve and prevent fetal malformation. Spinach is a big iron source, which can treat iron deficiency anemia, especially suitable for female physiological period.

Spinach should not be eaten with the following foods:

1. Cucumber: Vitamin C in spinach will be destroyed by decomposing enzymes in cucumber.

2. Tofu: Oxalic acid in spinach and calcium in tofu form calcium oxalate, so that calcium in the human body cannot be absorbed.

3. Milk: Eating together can cause dysentery.

4. Eel: Eating together will cause diarrhea.

5. Leek: Both of them have the function of smoothing intestines, which is easy to cause abdomen.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Definition of Food pH

References:

People's Network-Spinach collocation is particular: 5 kinds of food should not be eaten with spinach.