Wild Edible Plants
Wild edible plants are raw super food! They have incredible energizing and healing powers and they are absolutely FREE!!! This is the best cost saving and personal energizer tip for raw foodists! Below you can find an overview of the most popular and available wild edibles.
So what plants can you eat? The wild edible plants below are all great in salads and juices and you can find them anywhere. Most people know these plants already and they are very easy to recognize and find.
And if you don’t know them? The internet will help you tremendously. Wikipediais my favorite internet resource. It shows great pictures and describes how the wild plants look and where to find them. If you’d rather like someone to teach you in person, I suggest going to the scouts. I find them very knowledgeable on this subject and a great resource.
Wild plants are free, delicious and nutritious. And it’s lots of fun to look for them (much more fun than going to the super market). Bring your kids along, they love it! What a great way to get you a raw food meal!
Wild strawberries
These berries are rich in vitamin A, C, and K. In minerals calcium, iron, potassium, and silicon. They are good for fever, diarrhea, dysentery, liver, kidneys, and much more.
Watch this great video and learn where and how to find them.
Dandelions
Dandelion leafs are great in salads and juices. You can also eat the unopened buds raw (great in salads) Raw leafs have a slightly bitter taste. The leafs are high in vitamin A, vitamin C and iron, carrying more iron and calcium than spinach.
Lambsquarters
You can eat the leafs of this well known weed. The seeds are high in protein, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium (related to Quinoa).
Nettles
This is my favorite wild edible plant. In the Netherlands this is a notorious weed. You can find it everywhere. The plant is so strong! It survives both the hot sun and temperatures of -20.
Nettle juice tastes surprisingly good and did you know that the plant has even more minerals than wheat grass?
You can eat the very young leafs in your salad, but the older ones sting so you may not like to eat them raw. When you juice them, the stinging disappears. The fresh or dried leafs of nettle can be used to make a tea (don’t heat the water above 70 C or 179 F).
If you do get stung, rub the leafs of a plantain against the sore spot to relief the pain.