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Bolted lettuce is famously unusable because your sweet salad leaves turn bitter.

But does the same apply to spinach? It's a lettuce type crop (and equally prone to bolting in hot weather) but it's basically a bitter leaf anyway and typically cooked to a mush (a nice mush, if spinach is your thing, but still a mush) anyway, so does it really matter if additional bitterness has entered the plant?

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Yeah, but mainly because of the pollen which get everywhere and coats the plants. I don't think the leaves tasted particularly bad. Not picking it in a timely manner is why I didn't plant spinach this year. Last year I used my bolted spinach to make soup

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