A Reason to Welcome Spinach Back
Now that it’s safe to go back in the spinach patch, here’s a reason to stick your toe in.
Spinach and some other vegetables like sweetcorn, kale and broccoli are rich in a chemical called lutein, which, together with another carotenoid, zeaxanthin, form an oily, yellow substance at a central point of the retina known as the macula. This yellow oil, called macular pigment, is thought to protect the macula from age-related macular degeneration or AMD [snip].