Spinach is believed to come from Persia, according to Arizona State University. It had arrived in China by the seventh century and reached Europe in the mid-13th century, according to The Agricultural Marketing Research Center. For some time, the English referred to it as the “Spanish vegetable” because it came through Spain via the Moors. According to BBC Good Food, use of the word “Florentine” to describe a dish with spinach can likely be traced to Catherine de Medici, the Italian wife of France’s Henry II. It is believed that Catherine, who loved spinach, brought her own cooks from Florence to cook spinach in her preferred style.
Spinach is a member of the Chenopodiaceae family, which also contains nutritionally powerful foods like beets and Swiss chard, according to Purdue University. There are three types of spinach, according to Bon Appetit:
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