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AFCD Accredited Farm
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🐝 Supplier / Origin: VMO, Hong Kong Local Farms
🔖 Certification: AFCD Accredited Farm
🔅 We offer local, organic, sustainable options. We use a fair trade price to purchase directly from farmers. The pricing enables producers and consumers to have a sustainable relationship, and the three parties benefit the most.
🌱 Supplier introduction: Hong Kong Agricultural Park is one of the main measures of the new agricultural policy, helping to cultivate knowledge of agricultural technology and management of modern farms, and encouraging agricultural modernisation. Go far to help enhance the overall productivity of Hong Kong’s agriculture. The Agricultural Park will be located in Kwu Tung South, New Territories, providing about 80 hectares of agricultural land. It will be developed in two phases. It will be developed on a smaller scale first, with the aim of opening up some areas as soon as possible for those affected by the development of the Northeast New Territories and those affected by land development.
🛍 Product Information :
Spinach is eaten raw, in salads, and cooked in soups, curries, or casseroles. Dishes with spinach as a main ingredient include spinach salad, spinach soup, spinach dip, saag paneer, pkhali, ispanakhi matsvnit, and spanakopita.
In classical French cuisine, a spinach-based dish may be described as à la Florentine.
Although spinach contains moderate amounts of iron and calcium, it also contains oxalates, which may inhibit absorption of calcium and iron in the stomach and small intestine. Cooked spinach has lower levels of oxalates, and its nutrients may be absorbed more completely.
Cooking spinach significantly decreases its vitamin C concentration, as vitamin C is degraded by heating. Folate levels may also be decreased, as folate tends to leach into cooking liquid.
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一年中流通しているが、食材としての本来の旬は冬の11月 - 2月とされ、葉が大きくて緑色が濃く、葉脈がはっきりしているもの、軸は太くしっかりしているものが市場価値の高い良品とされる。特に露地栽培ものは、冬の畑で霜に当たって葉に糖分を貯めるため甘味が強くなり、味もよくなる。
生食用品種など例外はあるが、灰汁が多いので基本的に下茹でなどをしてから調理に使われる。沸騰させた塩を少量入れた湯に、根に近い茎のほうから湯に入れて茹で上げたら、水にさらして灰汁を取るようにするが、栄養分の流失を抑えるため長時間水にさらさないようにする。湯に塩を入れることによって、塩のナトリウムイオンが酸化を抑えて、葉の変色を防ぐ作用がある[16]。短時間で茹で上げるために、よく沸騰したたっぷりの熱湯で、少量ずつ手早く茹でたら、冷水にとって急激に冷ますことで、緑色鮮やかに茹であげられる[16]。塩分を控えたい場合には、塩を使わないで茹でてもよい。
元々素材の味が濃く、強い青味を含むため、おひたし、胡麻和え、バター炒め、オムレツなど様々な形で調理される。調理するとかさが3/4程度に減る。和食ではおひたしや胡麻和え・白和えといった和え物、常夜鍋などの鍋物、汁の実、炒め物に利用されるほか、すり潰したのち茹でて緑の色素を取り出したものを青寄せといい、木の芽和えの和え衣の色付けに用いる。洋食ではソテーやオムレツの具、キッシュ、グラタン、裏ごししたものを使ったポタージュ、パスタやパンなどに用いるほか[12]、灰汁の少ない生食用のものはルッコラやオランダガラシなどと共にサラダに使われる。
🔅Notes:
Some packaged spinach is exposed to radiation to kill any harmful bacteria. The Food and Drug Administration approves of irradiation of spinach leaves up to 4.0 kilograys, having no or only a minor effect on nutrient content.
Fresh spinach is packaged in air, or in nitrogen gas to extend shelf life. While refrigeration slows this effect to about eight days, fresh spinach loses most of its folate and carotenoid content over this period of time.
Spinach may be high in cadmium contamination depending on the soil and location where the spinach is grown.
Accredited vegetables are vegetables produced under the Reputation Farm program. In 1994 the Department of Fisheries, Agriculture and Nature Conservation and the Department of Vegetable Operations jointly implemented the Reputation Farm Program to encourage farmers to use pesticides correctly and safely and to farm with excellent, environmentally friendly methods.
One method of testing is that the farmer will not use pesticides for a period of time before the expected harvest of vegetables, which is the vegetable safe harvest period, following safety standards and reducing pesticide residues. Of course, we must rinse the vegetables thoroughly with clean water before eating, so you can eat more safely and assuredly!
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