Spinach

General characteristics of our crops

• Location - Mexicali Valley, Baja California, Mexico

• Availability of the product: October - March

• Climate conditions - It’s sowed during the Winter (October-March)

• Crops: Conventional 

Botany

Spinach belongs to the Chenopodiaceae family and the Spinacia genus. Its botanical characteristics are:

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• Annual plant with monoicous and autoalógamicous genotypes.

• Two subspecies can be distinguished: Glabra and Spinosa, which are differentiated by the form of their leaves.

• It is a dioecious plant, having masculine and feminine flowers; the latter have a more developed rosette and are slower in developing a floral stem.

Health benefits

• Goodbye to insomnia - Used as a remedy for headaches and as a sleep aid for people with sleeping disorders.

• Oxygenation – Spinach’s high iron content is a component of hemoglobin which is in charge of distributing oxygen to the entire body.

• It prevents gastric ulcers – It has the capacity to protect the mucous membrane of the stomach and reduce the possible appearance of ulcers.