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To: ConservativeMind

That’s why I eat lots of spinach, fresh and steamed.

“Vitamin K in Spinach Each half cup of cooked spinach contains 444.2 micrograms of vitamin K, while a half cup of raw spinach only contains 72.4 micrograms.”

https://www.montalvospirits.com/how-much-vitamin-k-in-a-cup-of-cooked-spinach/

Recommended Daily Allowances

“Men over 19 years old need 120 micrograms of vitamin K daily. Non-pregnant, pregnant and nursing women 19 years old and over need 90 micrograms of vitamin K each day. The National Institutes of Health’s Food and Nutrition Board recommends that teenagers of both sexes from ages 14 to 18 should have 75 micrograms of vitamin K daily, and that children from 1 to 13 years old require between 30 to 60 micrograms each day. The recommended daily allowance for infants is between 2 and 2.5 micrograms.”

https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/many-milligrams-vitamin-k-need-day-5643.html


9 posted on 04/06/2022 8:12:27 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

We eat a fair amount of spinach, too, but the standard Vitamin K leaves the body in a few hours and doesn’t have much impact on more concerning health issues, unfortunately.


10 posted on 04/06/2022 8:15:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Signalman

Spinach doesn’t contain ANY k2 at all!

Note that the vast majority of big benefits from vitamin K are from K2 not K1. Very few people would not get enough K1 from a normal diet, but lots of people could benefit from more k2, especially (2-7 and higher.

You could really hurt yourself from heavily spinach consumption! Did you that can cause oxylate kidney stones?

One of the best sources of k2 are cheese, blue is especially high. Pork, fermented high fat milk products are also good like yogurt and kefir. If it is nonfat it has NO k2.


24 posted on 04/06/2022 2:15:27 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Signalman

Just made this for dinner using chicken breasts and loved it, so passing it on.

https://www.ruled.me/one-pan-keto-chicken-and-spinach/


26 posted on 04/06/2022 3:09:06 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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