Green vegetables is proven to provide many health benefits. Green vegetables contain many vitamins, minerals, and high fiber. Vegetables accounted antioxidant, and helps you to lose weight. However, did you know that there is a vegetable that turns dangerous when consumed after a long cooked? This vegetable is spinach.
"Many parents are told not to eat spinach when cooked a long time (more than four hours), because it can be harmful to health," said Dr. Eva Kurniawati, a nutritionist.
Besides should not be eaten for a long time after it is cooked, spinach also should not be eaten if it is heated over and over. Spinach danger due to the oxidation process that occurs between the air and spinach. Spinach is a high source of iron for the body, but when too much moisture in the air, the iron will be transformed into a compound Ferro. If the iron is beneficial to the body, then this ferro toxic substances (oxidant) to the body. "We eat vegetables so that vegetables can be an antioxidant, but when eating spinach that has been oxidized same we put poison in the body," he said.
In addition, spinach also contains compounds nitrate (NO3), which when oxidized will turn into nitrite (NO2) which is also toxic. "There is no definite time limit on how long it is safe to eat spinach.'s Just not feasible mark this vegetable is consumed again when green vegetables that had been turned into black," adds Eva.
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