“In 1948 you could buy spinach that had 158 milligrams of iron per hundred grams But by 1965, the maximum they could find had dropped to 27 milligrams. In 1973, it was averaging 2.2 milligrams. That’s down from 158! That means today you'd have to eat over seventy bowls of spinach to get the same amount of iron that one bowl might have given you back in ’48.”
- Linda Grover, August Celebration |