Eating certain veggies like spinach and rhubarb can put a lot of oxalate into your body, and if you're prone to kidney stones, this might make you pass more oxalate in your urine and increase your chance of getting stones.

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Oxalate in Foods: Extraction Conditions, Analytical Methods, Occurrence, and Health Implications

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2023 Aug 25

This study says that foods like spinach and rhubarb have a lot of oxalate, and eating them can lead to more oxalate in urine, which may cause kidney stones — just like the claim says.

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Oxalate in Foods: Extraction Conditions, Analytical Methods, Occurrence, and Health Implications

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DOI: 10.3390/foods12173201

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Foods like spinach and rhubarb have a lot of a substance called oxalate, and if you eat them, your body might pass more oxalate in your urine — especially if you're someone who’s more likely to be affected by it.

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Eating spinach and nuts won’t cause kidney stones if you’re getting enough calcium from dairy or other sources.

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If you eat a normal diet with about 150 to 250 milligrams of oxalate a day, roughly half of the oxalate that shows up in your urine comes from the food you eat—so what you eat really matters for how much oxalate your body gets rid of.

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