Spinach is generally bitter because the amount of oxalic acid contained in spinach is relatively large, and oxalic acid also has certain toxicity. Spinach is eaten directly. This oxalic acid will make people's taste bitter.
If the taste of spinach is bitter, it means that the oxalic acid content in spinach is too high. In this case, it is not recommended to continue eating, so as not to affect the body. Another possibility is that there are some chemicals such as pesticides on the leaves, which are not cleaned when cleaning.
How to eat spinach
Spinach can often be used to make soup, cold salad, stir-fry, stir-fry meat or dish meat dishes. Dark green color, red roots, no moisture, no old stems and leaves, no bolting and flowering, and no yellow rotten leaves are preferred.
The common practices of spinach are chicken wings and golden needle spinach soup, spinach porridge, egg spinach cake, spinach nest eggs and so on. Cooking time should not be too long, because vitamin C is easily oxidized when heated.