Nutrition Nugget & Recipe: Spinach

Published On: February 10th, 2016By Categories: Miscellaneous1 min read

Serving baby spinach with a salad dressing containing a healthy fat like olive oil helps your body fully absorb all of those wonderful vitamins and nutrients. Creamy avocado, crunchy jicama and sweet mango makes a simple spinach salad sing with flavor – and the vitamin C in the mango increases your body’s ability to absorb the iron in the spinach.

Spinach Salad with Mango, Avocado and Jicama

Yield: 6 side salads

Ingredients:

  • 8 cups baby spinach leaves, washed
  • 1 ripe mango, peeled and cut into 1/2″ cubes
  • 1 small jicama, peeled and cut into thin strips
  • 1 ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
  • 1/2 medium red onion, sliced thinly
  • 1/3 cup of dressing of your choice

Directions:

  1. Toss all salad ingredients gently in a large bowl.
  2. Optional: Divide into large portions and serve with grilled chicken or seasoned black beans for an entree salad.

Nutrition Nugget

Calorie for calorie, leafy green vegetables like spinach provide more nutrients than any other food. The impressive list of vitamins and minerals that spinach provides includes vitamin K, vitamin A, manganese, folate, magnesium, iron, copper, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin E, calcium, potassium and so many more. Just two cups of raw spinach leaves contains more than the daily recommended intake of vitamins A and K.