Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Pasta Shells

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For fans of vegetables, the spinach and cheese stuffed pasta shells is the perfect dish. It doesn’t contain a hint of meat in it, which will likely appease to your vegetarian friends as well. In other words, the most noncontroversial dish in the house which is delicious to eat and will leave your friends and family asking for more. We will combine spinach with creamy ricotta and mozzarella cheese to give us a healthy dish which will make for an excellent vegetarian meal.

Health benefits

Spinach is low in fat, contains even lower cholesterol and high amounts of niacin, zinc, magnesium, phosphorous and a host of other vitamins. Spinach also contains thiamine and riboflavin which his used in important reactions of the body.  Spinach is also rich in various pigments such as beta carotene, xanthenes and lutein.

All of these ingredients help to improve our eyesight because of the anti inflammatory properties of spinach. It also treats macular degeneration, which is one of the primary reasons for blindness because it gradually erodes lutein and xanthenes from our retinas. Spinach helps to regain two pigments and thus prevent macular degeneration.