While it was primarily seen by adults as a method to get children to begin eating more spinach, the popular cartoon “Popeye the Sailor” might have actually had more truth to it than most people realize. Calorie per calorie, the green that children hate to love and parents love to give to their children has just as much protein as in a sirloin steak.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that we should simply cut out meat and replace it with spinach, nor does that portray the whole picture. As a matter of fact, it is missing one important aspect. To achieve the amount of protein you benefit from in a steak, you would have to eat a very large portion of spinach. As a matter of fact, you might need to eat about 10 pounds of spinach for this to happen, and too much of anything is a bad thing, even if it's a good thing.
Spinach contains an organic acid that absorbs calcium. Too much of the stuff without good calcium intake and your bones can begin to deteriorate as a result. Popeye responsibly.