For all of the nutrients that spinach packs into its leaves, the vegetable doesn’t come without its inconveniences. A massive “family size” bag shrinks into a serving size for a small child when ...

Boiling spinach proved the most effective method to reduce the chalky mouthfeel. Oxalates in spinach are the reason for the ...

Why does eating cooked spinach make my teeth feel funny? Spinach contains a large amount of oxalate crystals – mineral salts of oxalic acid. When spinach is cooked, especially canned, heat-processed ...

When we talk about crystals around here, we’re generally talking about the quartz variety used to make oscillators more stable, or perhaps ruby crystals used to make a laser. We hardly ever talk about ...