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 milligrams of iron in dried spinach powder. after the transcription error an error of logic because the fresh hydrated vegetable only has a tenth of this sign content the myth was born. to commit him. but the misunderstanding was cleared up dec