Pop-eye's spinach is available now in Philippine supermarkets.

when i was a kid my mother refer as mustasa, she called it popeyes spinach and told us to eat it. but unfortunately i did not learn to eay it for my mother does not eat that veggies too. my wife eats anything specially veggies so she loves mustasa. she also buys that spinach you see on supermarket. she also eats saluyot.... not me. i guess she will live longer she is like a rabbit har har har.

Ms. Eileen, I am from Baguio and it is sold in our public market since I was young. But the main reason is I think it's not really appreciated much in the lowlands until maybe a few years back. I hardly see it in supermarkets and it is sold here in a particular season. I like it best when you make it as a sub for basil in making pesto. :)

Popeye was part of a marketing campaign which was actually based on false information. At the time, it was claimed that spinach contained more iron (useful for muscle building) than any other vegetable but somebody actually got the math wrong and made the iron content 10 times greater than it really was! Oops! Spinach certainly is a useful vegetable but it's important to know that there are several quite different plants which are both called spinach. The two which are generally sold as spinach in England (and America) are 'true spinach', which is a member of the cabbage family and related to turnips, and one which is sometimes called 'perpetual' or New Zealand spinach and is a member of the dock and sorrel family and related to rhubarb. While both are good to eat, the latter kind contains small amounts of oxalic acid, so one should not eat too much of it. On looking up 'kangkong' and 'talbos ng kamote', I find that they are both different from either kind of spinach mentioned above. In English 'kangkong' (Ipomoea aquatica) is called 'water spinach' or 'swamp cabbage' and 'talbos ng kamote' (Ipomoea Batatas) is a variety of sweet potato. Both are related to the convolvulus or Morning Glory plant. All this shows that you can't really rely on the name that market traders put on their goods! 'Spinach' can refer to MANY different kinds of leafy vegetable and it may be that, because of the popularity of Popeye, people are selling an unfamiliar vegetable as 'spinach' simply because it will sell well that way!

I used to watch Popeye growing up. Spinach is quite a common leafy vegetable in India. But growing up outside the country, I wasn't introduced to the spinach until much later. I always thought what the fuss was..when I would watch Popeye. Is it a horrible tasting veggie that no one has? I'm still confused about it...because I love it in any form.

I eat almost all vegetables and yeah i eat spinach too we buy it from the supermarket when we do grocery shopping. but i haven't seen the canned one. oh and i love watching Popeye, i actually can imitate the way he laughs seriously hehehe

Do you believe that spinach that grow in our backyards is different than spinach that sell in the supermarket or market? because if there is hi-breed rice there is also hi-breed spinach the leave of spinach during my childhood is not as bigger than those in the market nowadays. Can cook it fried just like fried kangkong, or just boil it with water sprinkle with a little salt that's it. Spinach is good also for anemia.

hi madam. yes, i remember popeye. i am a big fan of popeye when i was a little kid. and now, even without the show on tv, i still remember him with one of my officemates who used to laugh out loud like popeye, har har har har and now i know, spinach is everywhere in the neighborhood. i just know it now, that this is family's favorite "kangkong.

spinach, i have only seen that in pictures , i am also not sure if that is available here in Zamboanga. but if we have that here, i might give it a try.

Spinach is one of my favourite vegetables because it's healthy, and it tastes good, stirred fried with garlics. I'm never bored with that dish cooked in that way as it's simply delicious. I love spinach with toasted cheese as well, but i try not to eat it too often as it's unhealthy due to the melted cheese, covering the spinach. Other than that, i would love to try spinach in various forms.

Not only in supermarkets. Spinach were already in the (wet and) dry markets for years now. And yes they come in bundles, and they are quite cheap. Shalots, some "sosyal" onion but is smaller and sweeter and is usually used in salads, are also found in dry markets. They've invaded the dry markets late last year.

hi friend. I grew up watching popeye the sailor man too, and did not believe my aunt when she brought me spinach from the market cause I thought they were suppose to be canned and squeezed just like Popeye does, really delicious when made to soup or fried with a batter similar to tempura. "Kangkong" is water or river spinach, but the real spinach that grows wild is called "kulitis". I also learned lately that "alugbate" is also a kind of spinach ( these are Pilipino words for different kinds of Spinach). Yeah very nutritious

I have had Spinach since I was a kid but I had no idea it was the same as Popey's lol. It's looks different and since Popey has his in a can, my childhood brains could have never been able to identify it and it has a different name here so yeah that would have been kinda tough. I have been eating it all my life but it's just been like 2years (i think) since I knew it was called Spinach lol

you can now even see it being sold in the public market as well as by sidewalk vendors.It is in abundance now maybe because it now adapts to the change of our climate.

the real spinach?

Dear friend, Here in South India is not much seen, even though it is available. May be due to non available I had not yet tasted it. But olive oil is much available here.

well the place we always use to shop has spinach always in their vegetable section. I didn't know that there's not a lot of places that sell it before.

Looking back in my younger years, Popeye is my favorite cartoon character...hehehe! Children of today do not know who Popeye is. Anyway, spinach is one of the healthiest vegetables and you can't easily find them at the market and very seldom that I can see them in supermarkets here in our place. I have this vegetable stall in the town proper wherein I usually order for spinach, they said that their spinach came from Japan but Japan have banned exporting their spinach because of the radiation, so I may wait till this radiation effect comes low before I can get a taste of spinach.

I think Popeye spinach is what our fellow American called spinach its knows here as Horenza so its not the same with Kangkong (water spinach or swamp spinach). Here what we call spinach is edible amaranth. I personally love Horenza because they taste really good when I stir fry it. Its not like kangkong they had more leaves.

Seriously? I remember every Popeye I watched. A real treat of my childhood. I always wanna try Canned Spinach. Do U have the can food one?