Red mountain spinach is nutritious and flavorful. The new kale in food fashion, it's jam-packed with vitamins and minerals like calcium, magnesium, anthocyanins, phosphorous, iron, protein, zinc, selenium, tryptophan, vitamin C, vitamin K, carotenes and dietary fiber. Moreover, this superfood is easy to grow and beautiful in mixed borders, with burgundy stems and leaves and an abundance of seedpods like dangling beads.