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JPopeye e Sozor first became a popular cartoon in the
1980s. The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to
make him strong. People watched him, and they began to
buy and eat a lot more spinach。Popeye helped sell 38
percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a
necessary part of many people's diets. ven some children
rho hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made
opeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have
any more iron than any other green vegetable-
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because
the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the
1890s。 a group of people studied what was inside
egetables. This group said that spinach had ten times
more iron than 赤 did. The group wrote the number wrong
and everyone accepted it
Today。 we know that the ttle iron there is im spinach
cannot make a difference in how strong a pereon 19.
However, spinach does have something else which the