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Danish food composition database:

Spinach raw

Finnish Food Composition database:

Spinach

Schweizer Nahrwertdatenbank:

Spinat roh

USDA data bank:

Spinach raw

Note the following striking differences:

1. Some databases include values for ash (e.g. the Danish and USDA database), while other databases do not.

2. There is a large variety with respect to the individual mentioned elements, especially for trace elements (e.g. iodine, selenium, copper, manganese, chromium etc.).

Denmark

Finland

Switzerland

USDA data bank

Welcome to the case ‘Elements’. Here you see food composition data of one food (namely raw spinach) taken from food composition databases from different countries. Take a look at these data to see what kind of information is included with respect to elements and ash. Click on the pictures to open the whole data sheet!