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Show Little Iron in Spinach. Berlin. There is a notion among physicians as well as laymen that spinach is the vegetable which is richest rich-est in Iron. This idea is erroneous, says Prof. Haensel, a German scientist, scien-tist, who has completed a series of experiments showing that It is cabbage cab-bage lettuce which contains the greatest great-est amount of iron, while spinach comes lowest in the list. Professor Haensel maintains that potatoes are more ferruginous than spinach. Food specialists say the human body requires re-quires daily a quantity of Iron, estimated esti-mated at three-quarters of a milligram. |
