the spinach project was dreamed up by katherine sama professor of chemistry didactics. and. she's interested in how chemistry can be taught in an engaging manner. maybe these students will go on to become scientists themselves one day. katherine zama is convinced that examples from people's everyday lives are helpful like popeye. i used to love what you know popeye and my parents made me to spend it before i was allowed to watch the show. and when he ate the spinach he got huge muscles he was a role model whenever i ate spinach i imagine becoming strong it's. just me but the notion that there's a lot of iron in spinach is just a myth. scientists themselves created this myth because sometimes they to make mistakes and for mooted it probably came about due to a transcription error in the lab a scientist forgot a decimal point as a result three point five milligrams became thirty five nutritionist really picked up on that the recommendation was eat a lot of spinach it'll make you strong. but there wasn't just one mistake quite by chance a chemist in basel found thirty five milli