spinach

Today I decided I'd look into something simple again...I chose spinach.
Ooops, did I goof!!!

Again I find a simple vegetable to be something so big it'll take at least two days to wade through the available information.

One surprising thing I found out was what they call "espinaca" around here (and I know as New Zealand spinach) is not related to regular spinach at all!!! Captain Cook used it to combat scurvy on his ship, though.
One good thing about it is snails and slugs don't like it. That's a positive point.
I remember finding a slug on a reguk]lar spinach bunch when I was poking around the kitchen as a child. As much as I like it, even today I am leary of eating some I have not personally washed.
I don't like New Zealand spinach much. One interesting thing about it is that it's an HEIRLOOM PLANT. I must look that up, too.