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Thursday, March 25, 2010

WILD FOOD NUTRITION - DANDELION


Dandelion leaves are a nutritious free food.
Dandelion leaves have very high amounts of carotenes expressed as vitamin A, vitamin C complex expressed as ascorbic acid, potassium and calcium. The fresh or cooked leaves have high amounts of iron, phosphorus, and B vitamin complex including  riboflavin, thiamine, niacin and choline. Also manganese, sulpher, magnesium, silica, low sodium, potash and vitamin D.
Forget hard to digest Dietary Supplements and eat your weeds !

Dandelion Greens

per person:
1 C dandelion greens
1/4 C water in pot

Wash greens well.
Chop coarsely without drying. Add to pot with water.
Bring to boil. Reduse heat and cook to taste. 
Firm or mushy.

Variations;
add raw garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper.
add vinegar and salt.
add sour cream and onion.
add bacon.

Info above from Susun Weed's very informative herbal  Healing Wise.













More herbals that cover Dandelion's amazing healing benefits:

3 comments:

Allisonian said...

Hello, I love your photo. And thank you for the great information! I, too, am a dandelion connoisseur! I have so many dandelions. They are so delicious! I love them very much! Fortunately, I just picked some for my lunch this morning. Rain, or not, they’re such a great pick-me-up. I loved the You Tube video you posted about them some time back. Got dandelions?
Hope your spring is bright! I don't think I've waited in anticipation as much as I have this spring. Thank you again! TTYL ;)

Morgaine said...

I love Dandelion Greens (and Dandelion tea)! I never could figure out why people wanted to spray them with nasties!

Clytie said...

I've heard so much about the benefits of dandelions, I'm not sure why I haven't tried them yet.

Maybe now is the time?