SOGGY SPINACH

Here’s an interesting fact about spinach. It’s recognised that this vegetable is high in iron and no doubt your parents used this point to convince you to swallow a soggy spoonful. I suppose Popeye has a lot to answer for. The spinach has no more iron content than most other vegetables. We can blame a late nineteenth century analyst for misplacing a decimal point, this gave the iron content ten times too high. It wasn’t until1937 that the mistake was recognised and put right.

Horticultural.