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raweater
02-01-2008, 01:33 AM
My local grocery store only has small half pound boxes of organic spinach and is almost always out, but large pound boxes of field greens salad mix which is often available.

The salad mix contains, and get ready, it's a lot of stuff:
Organic baby lettuces (red romaine, green oak, red oak, green leaf, lolla rossa, red leaf, new red fire, little gem, tango, green romaine), organic baby greens (mizuna, tat soi, spinach, red chard, green chard, red mustard, arugula, beet tops), organic chicories (radicchio, frisee). Ingredients may vary.

Does this have as much, less or more benefits for the same amount in weight as baby spinach? I didn't like these salad mixes but now that I have a Green Star I add quite a bit of these leaves to my vegetable juices. Is there a limit to how much I should put in a juice? I normally use carrot as the base (main ingredient) for my vegetable juices.

Thanks

jacsam
02-01-2008, 09:25 AM
At my house a half pound bag would be gone in one smoothie so I haven't tried what your talking about. We do LOVE spinach, so just try it and you know by the way you feel. I do think variety is key. Judith:)

eachpeachpearplum
02-01-2008, 11:49 AM
I would try to use both. The big thing with raw is VARIETY. This is key to proper nutrition!

We go through in one week:

2 big boxes mixed greens
2 big boxes spinach
2 big bunches green kale
2 big bunches red kale
2 big bunches chard
2 bunches parsley

Most are used WHOLE in green smoothies and the rest in salads.

Garlic
02-01-2008, 11:57 AM
I make green smoothies for my husband and I every morning.
each week I buy two one-pound containers of baby spinach.
and one one-pound box of the mixed greens you are talking about.
I use 2/3 spinach to 1/3 mixed greens ratio in my blender.
I feel like there is a lot of variety in those mixes.
but, there is nothing like that deep, deep green color you get from mostly spinach so I go heavier on the spinach.