“Spinach is thought to have originated about 2000 years ago in ancient Persia from which it was introduced to India and later to ancient China via Nepal in 647 CE as the “Persian vegetable”.[8] In 827 CE, the Arabs introduced spinach to Sicily.[9] The first written evidence of spinach in the Mediterranean was recorded in three 10th-century works: a medical work by al-Rāzī (known as Rhazes in the West) and in two agricultural…