Elsewhere, faces flushed and still in their uniforms, men and women soldiers waded into muddy paddies and bent down with fistfuls of spinach to plant.

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The FDA had been recently begun monitoring imports from the area, but after the Japanese government announced finding elevated levels of radiation from milk and spinach near the power plant, the FDA decided to suspend imports of specific foods altogether.

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"I am going to have farmers plant sweet potato and water spinach at Malacanang's nine-hole golf course, " he says.

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They have scoured the company's processing plant as well as the farms that grow the spinach, looking at everything from irrigation water to the proximity of livestock, with no sure connections made so far.

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While vegan foods, such as spinach, almonds, lentils and tofu offer some iron, the iron from plant foods does not boost iron stores as effectively.

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