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Packaged spinach stays healthy under daylong light

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Lynn Savage, Features Editor, [email protected]

Barely seven steps into most supermarkets and you are confronted with a wall of green – rows of packaged lettuce and spinach hoping to lure you toward healthy eating habits. Spinach, in particular, is full of nutrition, but how healthy can it be after being drenched in the glow of whitish-yellow fluorescent light for hours on end? According to researchers in Texas and Nova Scotia, very healthy indeed. Fresh spinach, especially the smaller, younger leaves called baby spinach, is one of the most nutritionally dense foods on the market. It is loaded with vitamins C, β9, E...Read full article

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    Published: April 2010
    Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaantioxidantsBasic ScienceBiophotonicscarotenoidsD. Mark HodgesDonald J. Makusfluorescent lightGene E. LesterJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistrylight intensityLight SourcesLighter SideLynn SavageNova Scotianutritionspinachß-carotenesupermarketsTexasU.S. Department of Agriculturevitamins

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