If You Can’t Beat Them Eat Them!

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Indexed  June 27, 2011

If you’re a gardening fan, you probably have a love – hate relationship with weeds. I fume every time I see my precious plants strangled by these ‘pests’! But in calmer moments, I am grateful because I know that these wild weeds can be incredibly nutritious. Plus they’re free! Their nutritional and therapeutic value has in fact been known and exploited for centuries worldwide, and promoted by gardening and cooking experts like  Vivien Weise . She shows how common weeds have many times the minerals, vitamins and protein of cultivated vegetables. For example, take 100g of lettuce and stinging nettles. Lettuce has 13mg Vit C, the nettles have 333mg. Or 100g of chickweed has 8.4mg of iron compared to just 4.1mg in spinach. Dandelion has 3.3% protein per 100g, lettuce 0.9%   See the complete post here