Greetings!
Health and sustainability are of the utmost importance to me, and this post is a specialty of both!
Today, I share with you a video of me harvesting and discussing Lamb's Quarter, a super nutritionally dense food which grows natively in much of North America. It is great for cultivating as well as wild harvesting!
After the video, I have pictures and nutrition information which is very valuable.
I also discuss other matters of importance as I walk along in The Garden of Eden, so come share an educational and healthy 6 minutes with me in this video!
Here are some closer up pictures of Lambs Quarter so you can better identify it!
It tastes quite good!
Here are some photos of the plants going to seed.
This plant as I said is a super food and very rich in nutrition. What I find most substantive is that it is over 20% protein and has a LOT of pure amino acids, which are actually far more important than protein.
In just a one ounce serving you get:
- Tryptophan 10.6 mg
- Threonine 45.6 mg
- Isoleucine 70.8 mg
- Leucine 98.0 mg
- Lysine 99.1 mg
- Valine 63.3 mg
- Methionine 13.7 mg
- Cystine 24.9 mg
- Histidine 32.5 mg
- Arginine 70.8 mg
- Phenylalanine 46.5 mg
- Tyrosine 49.0 mg
- Aspartic acid 121 mg
- Alanine 90.2 mg
- Glutamic acid 146 mg
- Glycine 69.7 mg
- Serine 56.0 mg
- Proline 62.4 mg
Maybe even harder to find in nature are omega fats!
Lamb's quarter is super rich in omega fatty acids as well!
In just a one ounce serving you get:
- Total Omega-6 fatty acids 87.6 mg
- Total Omega-3 fatty acids 10.1 mg
These are super important for health and quite rare in most people's diets.
I hope you consider growing or wild harvesting some of this super sustainable, cheap super food!
As always, I welcome your feedback and appreciate your support~
SteemON!
