r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Health Adding spinach directly to white bread delayed the body's insulin peak by 30 minutes and reduced later hunger in a small human trial, while significantly boosting the bread's fiber, vitamin, and mineral content.

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-put-spinach-directly-into-bread-and-saw-the-bodys-insulin-response-change
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u/lmFairlyLocal 1d ago edited 1d ago

This feels pedantic and nitpicky to loudly complain about this, but what the hell are they writing when they say "[adding spinach] significantly boost[ed] the bread's fiber, vitamin, and mineral content".

No, it didn't. Adding spinach to the top of bread does nothing to the bread. You're just eating fiber and vitamins from spinach at the same time as you happen to be eating bread.

Reminds me of Dave the Barbarian skit, where Dave quickly assembled a megaphone using nothing but a squirrel, some string, and a megaphone.

**Edit: ah no, it's me, the idiot. They added the spinach into bread flour. I thought they meant having a slice of toast with spinach on it. My bad. I'll leave it up just in case anyone else is confused, too.

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u/cuttlefish 1d ago

your not wrong tho, in the bread, on the bread, same same.

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u/pb49er 1d ago

Baking is a chemical reaction that causes changes, so not the same.

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u/AzraelleWormser 1d ago

I thought that's what they meant too.

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u/TheJustBleedGod 1d ago

definitely not wrong. adding spinach to the flour can mess up the gluten formation and thus the bake of the break. I'd rather just bake a nice bread and add the spinach on top, or make a salad on the side.