id: 178

name: Spinach

flavor_bible_name_variants: greens spinach,spinach

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status: draft

source: foodb,flavor_bible

food_db_name: Spinach

flavor_db_name_variants: spinach

name_scientific: Spinacia oleracea

description: Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae. It is native to central and southwestern Asia. It is an annual plant, which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2–30 cm long and 1–15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem. The flowers are inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3–4 mm diameter, maturing into a small, hard, dry, lumpy fruit cluster 5–10 mm across containing several seeds. Common spinach, Spinacia oleracea, was long considered to be in the Chenopodiaceae family, but in 2003, the Chenopodiaceae family was combined with the Amaranthaceae family under the family name 'Amaranthaceae' in the order Caryophyllales. Within the Amaranthaceae family, Amaranthoideae and Chenopodioideae are now subfamilies, for the amaranths and the chenopods, respectively.

itis_id: 20709

wikipedia_id: Spinach

picture_file_name: 178.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 113714

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:37.000Z

legacy_id: 188

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:24.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:18.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: true

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3562

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00178