A, spinach should be blanched or not, mainly depends on what kind of effect you are trying to bring to your body by consuming spinach.

If you want your body to absorb more calcium, then you must blanch it before cooking spinach. If you are consuming spinach for its fat loss and weight loss effects on your body, then you should not blanch it.

Second, cooked and then fried will lose part of the nutrients, but not completely lost.

There's no perfect way to cook, so don't get too hung up on whether you're losing too much of a food's nutrients, the key is which nutrients you care about. In your daily life, you can find the most suitable and healthy way to combine ingredients in a balanced way, taking into account your own and your family's health condition.　　

If you care about getting more calcium and don't want too much fat, blanched spinach is a very healthy dish, and even if you lose a little bit more by reheating it, you can supplement it by increasing the amount of spinach you eat, or by combining it with other ingredients. For example, you can make up for the loss of vitamin C in blanched spinach by eating certain fruits that are high in vitamin C.

On the other hand, if you're more concerned about the loss of vitamins and flavonoids, you may want to eat more dairy and soy products with your unblanched spinach to make up for the low absorption of calcium oxalate.

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Spring Spinach Most Nutritious

Spinach is rich in nutrients and contains high amounts of protein. The content of vitamin C in spinach is twice as high as cabbage. A person only need to eat 100 grams of spinach a day, can meet the body's need for vitamin C. In addition, spinach is richer in calcium, iron, vitamin E and niacin. Studies have found that spinach is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the composition of which is similar to deep-sea fish oil.

Spring dry climate, people are very susceptible to viral infection and keratitis, often eat some fresh spinach, can prevent and control this disease. Spinach contains folic acid, pregnant women eat more spinach is conducive to the development of fetal brain nerve, to prevent teratogenesis.

Spinach also contains a large amount of water-soluble cellulose, regular intake of cellulose is conducive to the discharge of toxins in the intestinal tract, so constipated people should eat more spinach in order to facilitate laxative and laxative. Spinach contains a kind of insulin-like substances, so diabetics (type 2 diabetics) is most appropriate to eat spinach.

In addition, spinach has a certain effect on blood, spinach contains enzymes that can promote gastric and pancreatic secretion function, so the blood can eat spinach.

The Chinese medicine believes that spinach is sweet, cool, can nourish the blood to stop bleeding, convergence of yin and dryness, benefit the five viscera, through the bloodstream, under the gas adjustment, thirst and intestines. Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded its "through the blood, open the chest and diaphragm, under the gas regulating the middle, quench thirst and moisten the dry". Food Therapy Materia Medica" that spinach "benefit the five viscera, through the stomach and intestines heat, detoxification of alcohol. Serving Dan Shi people eat good".

"With the rest of the house diet" that spinach "open the chest and diaphragm, through the stomach and intestines, moistening dry blood, astringent stools and hemorrhoids should be eaten. Folk treatment of cough and asthma will be yellow spinach seeds fried with fire, research into fine powder, each time to serve 5 grams, served twice a day, warm water to serve.

Reference:

People's Republic of China - Spinach to blanch? What are the nutritional values of spinach?

People's Daily News - Spinach blanching has a "say": remove oxalic acid to prevent stones

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