Don't leave spinach in the dark...more

[haikuman]

Don't leave spinach in the dark for more than a few hours before you stew it

June 25, 2011 10:52 pm ET
Anne Hart
One-Pot Meals Examiner


When you make a one-pot meal of a variety of dark green leafy vegetables put in a broth to flavor a stew, soup, or casserole, make sure you don't store those leafy vegetables in the dark for very long after you've bought or picked them.

Today, as you pore over the organic or any other spinach selections in a variety of supermarkets, you'll notice that there's one layer of spinach on top, facing bright lights. Above, some bunched spinach is pushed a bit under an overhang that keeps the vegetable from being exposed to the steady bright light above it.

Without exposure to light, photosynthesis, your green vegetables soon lose their nutritious value. How long have your vegetables been kept in the dark, in trucks, in any Sacramento market, or in your refrigerator? Did you know vegetables lose their nutrients when not exposed to light?


http://www.examiner.com/one-pot-meals-in...ou-stew-it

[mattkime]

thats why refrigerators have lights!

[haikuman]

mattkime wrote:
thats why refrigerators have lights!

Matt you are in the dark and so is da spinach when the door is closed yikersss ~!~!~!~

Rudie

[cbelt3]

Uh huh.. "Higher Levels". How MUCH higher ? 1% ? 10% ? And the mixture of quasi information in this article is typical. She begins by talking about this whole light thing, switches to discuss the horrible risk of contamination with e-coli , reaches no conclusions, then switches back to lighting.

Please.. Annie... stick to one topic. Are you getting paid by the inch ?

[freeradical]

That was simply amazing. Let's assume that light is good for the spinach as it's sitting in a supermarket. An artificial light does not even begin to compare to the light from the sun.

A grow light that is one inch from the leaves of a plant provides the same amount of energy in one hour as the plant would get from a day in the sun.

A grow light that is eight inches from the leaves of a plant provides the same amount of energy in eight hours as the plant would get from a day in the sun.

A plant that is ten feet away from a standard fluorescent lamp...

[haikuman]

Several good points and several assumptions me thinks.():>( From farm to fork deterioration and loss of nutrients is already in motion. Perhaps nutrient loss is accumulative.

More stuff .....the jury mat be out ... and the message contradicted ?

http://news.discovery.com/earth/supermar...oduce.html

THE GIST:

Fluorescent supermarket lights can boost vitamin concentrations in vegetables.
If you can't pick and eat your vegetables immediately, continuous light conditions could make them more nutritious.

In a recent study, spinach gained nutritional value as it sat for days under fluorescent lights, with some vitamins doubling their concentrations. The discovery suggests that supermarkets and consumers might want to rethink the way they store their produce, said study author Gene Lester, a research plant physiologist at the United States Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Md.

Continuous light exposure allows plants to maintain photosynthesis, Lester explained, and photosynthesis produces nutrients. Fluorescent supermarket lights, which mimic the spectrum of natural sunlight, are often kept on all the time, day and night.


Rudie

[rjmacs]

The Examiner, for science articles? Really? I'll shut up now before i say something really rude.

[haikuman]

rjmacs wrote:
The Examiner, for science articles? Really? I'll shut up now before i say something really rude.

You really want to say there is a fine line between prudes and sluts ~!~ :devil:

You are very well read it is well known