The Leaf That Does Both: Raw or Cooked, Spinach Delivers

What are the different types of spinach?

There are three main types. Baby spinach has small, tender leaves and a mild flavour, good raw or cooked, and the one you'll find on most shelves in Australia. English (or mature) spinach has larger, tougher leaves and is usually cooked. Savoy has crinkly, dark green leaves, also typically cooked.

What's the difference between English and baby spinach?

English spinach is the fully grown plant with bigger, tougher leaves, best cooked down in a dish. Baby spinach is harvested young, while the leaves are still small and tender, which is what makes it good eaten raw.

Growing indoors lets us time every harvest for that tender baby-leaf stage consistently, rather than leaving leaf size and texture up to the season.

Why ours is grown differently

Growing indoors means we can harvest at exactly the right point and every leaf picked is a tender baby leaf, rather than waiting on a field crop to reach the right size on its own schedule. It also means no soil and no pests to fight, so there's no need for pesticides or herbicides at all.

That matters more for spinach than most greens, because baby spinach is usually eaten raw and unwashed and there's nothing on the leaf you wouldn't want on your fork.

What are the health benefits of spinach?

Spinach is a good source of iron, folate, Vitamin K and antioxidants, and it's rightly considered one of the more nutrient-dense vegetables around.

Because our growing conditions are controlled from seed to harvest, the plant gets a steady, measured feed throughout, so what you get is consistent, batch after batch. And because it reaches you quickly after harvest, it hasn't had time to lose freshness sitting in transit.

How do you store spinach?

Store it unwashed, in a bag or container with a little air space, in the fridge. Stacked Spinach will keep for around 18 days, however generally Spinach from the supermarket keeps for around five to seven days because spinach wilts faster than a sturdier green like cos / romaine or mixed leaf, so it's best used within that window.

Starts fresh, stays fresher

Here's the head start most greens never get: ours arrive clean and dry. Grown indoors, pesticide-free, and never washed, so there's no leftover moisture quietly turning the leaves before you've even opened the pack. Store them well and they'll reward you.