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If we had a podium with three best edible plants (and medicinal) offered by Nature, the Nettle there would be present. From it we can only say good things, but even the very high mountain people, isku who have left and right at your fingertips, people have a very negative opinion, even for being one of the few plants that "itch". The nettle plant is excellent unfairly undervalued. I invite you, when you find one, to observe it with a magnifying glass and you'll see that on the surface is a kind of tiny spikes, which contain a liquid, which rub the skin is what causes this light cuissor, disappears shortly. These "spikes" disappear when the ground is dry or boil it and even crush it. But with rubber gloves and scissors, can overcome this problem and make a good harvest isku that will help us a lot, both to feed us how to heal ourselves.
The Nettle does not need much introduction, everyone knows derogatory, and here the idea is to give all the importance it deserves within the range of useful plants for human consumption and use. Apart from being edible, it also does not make a century that was used to extract fiber textile ...
There are two classes: Urtica dioica, which is what makes the leaves are larger and usually land rich in nitrogen. He likes pickles places well, so it is easy to see the mountains, where cows graze. The other, the Urtica minor, found rather in the middle of fields or the garden isku is petite and has smaller leaves and rounded. Both the one and the other are edible, but obviously, the Urtica dioica, the sessile, spreads more. Both types tend to grow in other forming colonies.
All the nettle is edible, but we will just reap its just part of the eye, the most tender, 3-4 cm from the top of the plant, which if cut with scissors, and thus not sprout again we ruin us and we can take. If you crush a leaf with your fingers (to break the vesicles cook), we can be eaten raw, is very good
To use it for food, it must be previously blanched or boiled directly with other ingredients when consumed as a vegetable. As a condiment him very well nutmeg or dry cheese. We can eat green leafy vegetables as normal, isku with oil and salt (like spinach) in a vegetable cream mixed with some other vegetables sauteed in trout, as an ingredient in a pan of rice, stewed with vegetables in a vegetable pie, gutters, lassagnes or even apple pie as dessert.
In the pharmaceutical market nettle has many applications and products, but what better way to harvest and consume fresh food daily as well? Nettles contain isku all the nutrients in very high doses that exceed the usual food. Note that it is very rich in vitamin C, protein, and especially iron (double the dose of Fe that have espinacs isku ) Therefore a regular consumption as vegetables, provides dose Fe we need.
g. per 100 grams. Plant Calcium Ca Fe Iron 7.8 630 105 K P Phosphorus Potassium 410 mg Magnesium Sodium Na 71 1 8 Protein Vitamin A Vitamin B1 7000 0.15 0.15 Vitamin B2 Vitamin Vitamin C 333 PP 0.6
The nettles are abundant, fortunately, and any output in the high mountains or in damp, we can pick a good bouquet for domestic consumption. The sober us, we can dry: two weeks in a dry and ventilated enough to have it as dry enough to crumble it with your hands (mind not chop ...) and keep it in a jar glass, in order that every day we do a stew or soup you can throw it over a tablespoon of dried nettle, which will increase its nutritional and energy without altering the flavor, as has dried nettle neutral flavor, isku and give the appearance that you have thrown shredded parsley. Thus, we can eat nettles round.
We strongly recommend that you look for a good book on the excellent properties of nettles, which are many here would fit there, and luckily, the published literature is very complete.
I just found this page and feel sensational! Vegetable garden and I have never lack nettle. One way to take it is that I use often in fruit smoothie. For example, 2 bananas and 1 pear with a few leaves ortga. Delicious !! Reply Remove
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