Make this easy salad a more substantial main dish by adding grilled chicken or roasted tofu on top.

Add spinach; toss until well coated.

Top with orange segments, shallot, feta and pine nuts.

a recipe photo of the Spinach Salad

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Like most other cheeses, feta delivers some protein and calcium.

Thankfully, due to fetas pungent taste, you need just a little bit to get its flavor.

Botanically speaking, pine nuts are seeds, but the FDA classifies them as tree nuts.

the ingredients to make the Spinach Salad

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Anyone sensitive to nuts should consult with their allergist before indulging.

Theyre the same cooking ingredienta flavoring agent resulting from a fermentation process that converts rice to alcohol to vinegar.

The keyword here is vinegar.

a step to make the Spinach Salad

Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Phoebe Hauser

Additional reporting byCarrie Myers, M.S.andLinda Frahm

EatingWell.com, April 2024

a step to make the Spinach Salad

Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Phoebe Hauser