Timeline for Why does spinach give Popeye superpowers?

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Jun 16, 2020 at 9:31	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
Nov 25, 2017 at 22:08	comment	added	Valorum		@Pahlavan - That version of events is also debunked by the same source (p9; www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/…)
Nov 25, 2017 at 22:06	comment	added	Pahlavan		Another version of the iron content story is that the measurements were correct, but taken from dried plants while spinach as used in food is 90% water and that*s what caused the moved decimal point.
Nov 25, 2017 at 8:19	comment	added	Valorum		@Brythan - Because the comic was written in a time when Vitamin A deficiency (and its relevant conditions like night-blindness and vision loss) were a genuine fear; downstate.edu/peds/Karp/historicalnutrition.html. The entire point is that you tell kids that vitamins are a superfood.
Nov 25, 2017 at 5:30	comment	added	RonJohn		Why is Olive Oyl so.... fat? Is this the modern version, or something?
Nov 25, 2017 at 5:15	comment	added	Brythan		This doesn't answer the question in any meaningful way. Why does vitamin A make him extra strong? Reading this you'd think it was adrenaline or something. It's an essential vitamin. It doesn't make people stronger.
Nov 24, 2017 at 22:24	comment	added	Mr Lister		Another story I remember hearing was that someone measured the iron content in spinach that had been taken from a tin, and that's what caused the tainted results. The spinach had absorbed some metal from the tin. Now I can't seem to find any evidence that this was an actually circulating story though, so someone might have made it up on the spot.
Nov 24, 2017 at 18:38	history	edited	Valorum	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 225 characters in body
Nov 24, 2017 at 18:04	vote	accept	Doctor Doom
Nov 24, 2017 at 17:31	history	answered	Valorum	CC BY-SA 3.0