15-08-2012, 11:15 PM
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Granity wrote:
You should have harvested the chickweed. :-)
"Chickweeds are Medicinal and edible, they are very nutritious, high in
vitamins and minerals, can be added to salads or cooked as a pot herb,
tasting somewhat like spinach. The major plant constituents in Chickweed
are Ascorbic-acid, Beta-carotene, Calcium, Coumarins, Genistein,
Gamma-linolenic-acid, Flavonoids, Hentriacontanol, Magnesium, Niacin,
Oleic-acid, Potassium, Riboflavin, Rutin, Selenium, Triterpenoid
saponins, Thiamin, and Zinc."
I have, and have eaten it both cooked and raw in salad. It is
better in the latter, but the operative word is "unexciting". |
My experience is that anything described as "tasting somewhat like spinach" is at best something you would eat only if there were nothing else available. Nettle is probably the best of the bunch, and I don't go out of the way to eat that.
That said, there's a rather nice cheese called Yarg which is wrapped in nettle leaves. Not sure whether its taste has anything to do with the nettle leaves.
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