Fresh Spinach

A Primitive Plus green for taming

Taming is the one job the ARK Wiki knows for Fresh Spinach in version 1.5 of the Primitive Plus DLC for ARK: Survival Evolved; the wiki also names version 1.5 (Primitive Plus) as the one that added it. Its description is short: "Great for adding fiber to your diet!" The plant grows from Spinach Seeds.

How it speeds up taming

As a taming food, Spinach works like Lettuce and Fresh Sorghum (Primitive Plus). During a tame it restores 20 food points, while ordinary crops such as Rockarrot restore 40, yet the creature needs the same number of either. The wiki concludes that taming with Spinach goes twice as fast as with ordinary crops. When the proper kibble is missing, it rates Spinach as the top option for taming herbivores, with the warning that taming effectiveness can fall very low.

Which herbivores eat it

The wiki has confirmed it for the Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Parasaur, Dodo, Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, Paraceratherium, Phiomia, Pachy, Carbonemys, Castoroides and Woolly Rhino. A few refuse it:

• the Doedicurus does not eat Spinach;
• the Ankylosaurus skips Spinach but accepts Fresh Coffee Fruit (Primitive Plus), Lettuce (Primitive Plus) or Fresh Sorghum (Primitive Plus), all with the same effect;
• the Kentrosaurus eats neither Spinach nor Lettuce (Primitive Plus) and takes Soybean (Primitive Plus) instead.

Weight and stacking

Each Fresh Spinach weighs 0.1. A stack holds 200 and weighs 20 when full.