Small white grains on underside of spinach?

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What are these white grains on my spinach leaf? What are they? Is it safe to it?

Not the big white thing (that's a hemp heart). I mean the little white grains lining the leafs veins...

Curious because now I'm not sure I want to eat this salad.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '17 at 02:08

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These look like whitefly eggs. You should be fine to wash them off and eat the produce. Consider a horticultural oil as a treatment with an increase in aeration.

answered Jun 08 '17 at 02:08

Rhizoqueer

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '22 at 22:32

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Trichromes. totally normal spinach thing. i just learned about them.

answered Jun 10 '22 at 22:32

Lance Peterson

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Small white grains on underside of spinach?

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