The difference in spinach

MHCbreanne

What's the difference between spinach from the salad section of the shop (usually washed) and spinach from the vegetables section (usually unwashed). Other than the washing is there any other difference. I normally still use the veg spinach for salads and it seems to work/taste fine!

85Cardinals

Popeye would enjoy either. Washed might be cleaner though. Buy the cheaper unwashed and wash it.

Lounmoun

MHCbreanne wrote: »

What's the difference between spinach from the salad section of the shop (usually washed) and spinach from the vegetables section (usually unwashed). Other than the washing is there any other difference. I normally still use the veg spinach for salads and it seems to work/taste fine!

Nutritionally- none. Spinach is spinach.
Cost may be different.

kuroshii

In the "salad section" everything has been prewashed and precut and ready to eat...so you're paying for the convenience of making a salad right there instead of at home. But the WHAT of what you're eating is exactly the same.

abatonfan

It's often cheaper. At my grocery store, the bags of kale salad mix is way more expensive per lb than the 5lb bulk bag of washed kale, which is also more expensive per lb than the individual heads of kale greens that I bag myself, destem, and wash. From what I noticed, the more prepared a food is, the more expensive it's going to be, but prepared food is going to be nutritionally the same as unprepared food (assuming nothing else is added).

pomegranatecloud

Price and usually the packaged kind has the stems cut shorter than the unwashed kind in the vegetable section.