How can I get spaces to render in my dropdown option label template call? Example

Let entry.dropdownOption.label = "option with spaces"

{% for entry in entry.dropdown %}
    {{ entry.dropdownOption.label }}
{% endfor %}


renders as in my template: "optionwithspaces"

How can I instead get it to render as "option with spaces"?
It turns out this was happening because i'd set some values for my content and then changed the structure of the field. I just reset the values for my content and all was well.