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New Zealand Spinach, is a flowering plant, but mostly cultivated as a leafy vegetable although it is rather salty, if becomes more salty and bitter as the leaves matures, harvest the leaves while young and tender. Its natural habitat is sandy shorelines and bluffs. The plant has a trailing habit and forms a thick carpet on the ground or climb through other vegetation and hang downwards. The leaves of the plant are 3-15cm long, triangular in shape, and bright green. It thrives in hot weather and is considered a heirloom vegetable. Few insect consume it, and even slugs and snails do not seem to feed on it. You can grow the New Zealand Spinach as perennial and it self seeds easily, ensuring you have plenty of greens for life. The plant handled being neglected very well.
Nutritional Facts:
New Zealand spinach is valued because of its high vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C content. It is low in fat and fiber content. New Zealand spinach does have a high oxalate content, which can be dangerous at high concentrations, which is why it is preferable to steam or cook it for at least 10 minutes.
Health Facts:
Aid in digestion and prevents constipation, helps lower risk of heart disease, improves bone health, as it contains beta-carotene it may help improve eye health too. The high vitamin A, helps to moisturize your hair with increasing sebum production.
Quantity: 10 New Zealand Organic Seeds
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