MadSci Network: Botany
Query:

Subject: Why does cooked spinach leave a film that you can feel on your teeth?

Date: Wed Jul 5 19:18:32 2000
Posted by Kate Rope
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: San Francisco State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Botany
ID: 962839112.Bt
Message:

After I eat cooked spinach, I can feel with my tongue and almost sticky film 
on my teeth. It feels a bit like rubbing your tongue on a paper napkin. This 
doesn not happen when I eat raw spinach, is it because the iron is released 
when the spinach is cooked?



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