Malabar spinach is a familiar vegetable in Vietnamese meals. Malabar spinach provides many important nutrients for the body such as sodium, lipid, potassium, fiber, carbohydrates, protein, calcium, iron, and many vitamins in spinach leaves such as vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D.
One day, you only need to eat a small bowl of cooked spinach to provide enough vitamin A and iron for your body's needs. Ingredients in spinach promote digestion by adding mucus and soluble fiber, facilitating and reducing constipation.
Malabar spinach has cold properties, sour taste, non-toxic, supports diuresis, detoxification, beautifies the skin, treats heat rash, pimples, supports anemia, and heatstroke. Juice from spinach can heal burns quickly, and stewing spinach with pig's feet is good for people with bone and joint pain.
However, spinach is rich in nutrients but contains high amounts of oxalic acid and purines, so if eaten too much, calcium oxalate in urine accumulates in the body, easily causing kidney stones. High uric acid levels increase the risk of gout. Therefore, people with kidney stones and gout should limit eating spinach.
