Re: Is spinach harmful in excess?

Van Bagnol writes:

> What I had been contending was the assertion that spinach was a 
> questionable source of iron because of its oxalate content. The Medline 
> articles I found seem to suggest that oxalate did not inhibit iron 
> absorption.

I'm confused.  The oxalate binds to the iron, and to the calcium, or is
it the calcium that binds to the iron, or is it the vitamin C that
inhibits it all, or what?

In other words, searching around for sources of information on this, I
can't seem to ever find the same conclusion in more than one source.
Nobody seems to know how much iron, calcium, oxalate, or vitamin C (or
anything else) gets absorbed from spinach, or whether any of it is good
or bad.

In any case, I finished off my last two tubs of pureed spinach, and I
haven't bought any more.

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