Why does eating spinach make my teeth feel dry and scratchy?

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I eat a lot of spinach and I've felt this, too. I also felt it once after eating a whole pineapple (I was in college, what can I say?). Anyway, the pineapple thing I explained as being due to its acidic nature. I'm not sure about spinach.

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