Spinach contains iron, but most of these can not be absorbed and utilized by the body, the pediatric iron supplements to promote hematopoietic and useless. On the contrary, spinach contains a lot of oxalic acid into the body, and calcium combined with calcium to generate calcium oxalate precipitation, affecting the growth of children's bones and teeth, but also cause a lack of calcium and the occurrence of chondropathy. Therefore, children eat more spinach and can not treat iron deficiency anemia, but will cause other adverse consequences.

The spinach as a kind of home cooking is still possible, eat should be blanched with boiling water to remove part of the oxalic acid. In addition, if with some animal food with good, such as spinach shredded pork, spinach meatball soup, etc., you can mitigate the shortcomings of spinach; spinach and tofu soup, egg soup is a bad match, which will make the tofu, eggs in the iron is not easy to be absorbed by the body.