In addition to the idle desert, you can always find a lot of edible and nutritious plants in your immediate surroundings. However, you must learn to distinguish edible and poisonous plants, who can cause disease. Some, however, edible plants have small, stinging Italian, which irritate the mouth and throat, be also poisonous seeds. There are also plants that only at specific times of the growing cycle are suitable for food. Others yet, though edible, they are so little nutritious, that we use more calories with their harvest, than we gain by eating them.
Moderate zone plants
Avoid eating old shoots and roots, which can be lacked and hard, with an unpleasant taste. Young shoots and plants are much better and usually nutritious than the old ones, Besides, you can often eat them without cooking. The same applies to leaves. Always choose the young, green leaves, by tearing them off from the stalk. Here are some of the edible plants of the moderate zone.
Wise sea (Crambe)
Also called sea cabbage, grows on the coasts. He has thick leaves and an underground stalk, which you can cook and eat. The plant looks like cabbage.
Examples (Sedum)
Grows on the scales, Walls and roofs of houses. The plant is sharp, peeping taste. Its leaves can be eaten raw in the form of a salad or cooked and added as a spice for soups.
Rdest (Polygonum)
This plant occurs almost all over Europe, and related species are found in North America. Grows in meadows and forest glades, reaches the height to 60 cm. It is easy to recognize by longitudinal, various inflorescences. The leaves and shoots can be cooked. Roasted roots are also edible, But you have to soak in the water beforehand.
Bitter (Barbarea)
Occurs in Europe, North America and New Zealand. Its leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.
Portulaka (Portlaca)
It grows in coastal muds flooded with salty sea water below the tide range. The leaves can be broken and collected at any time of the year. They are stewed on a slow fire, and then eats with the addition of lemon juice. Portulaka cannot be the basis of nutrition. Folding only with one type of food threatens with malnutrition.
Pest (Aegopodium)
This herbaceous plant is found in many regions of Europe and Asia. Young leaves and their tails taste best, When the shoots are about 15 cm in length.
Other edible plants
Seaweed, such as porphyria, you can cook, bake or dry. They also produce a kind of gelatin, which is suitable for preparing desserts. Dandelion leaves, popularly called milk (Taraxacum), You can use instead of spinach, Just like the leaves of wild sorrel (Rumex). Wild garlic, For example, bear garlic (Garlic), is an excellent spice.
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