Learn how to find, identify, and use the incredible wild edible Wood Sorrel (Oxalis). This video also debunks myths surrounding the “dangers” of consuming wood sorrel plants and explores less common uses for the plant!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Everyone should eat wood sorrel!
01:39 - Why are they called wood sorrel?
02:35 - How to identify wood sorrel
03:41 - Wood sorrel and oxalic acid content
04:46 - Comparing wood sorrel to spinach
06:31 - Debunking oxalate myths
10:02 - The simplest way to eat wood sorrel
11:22 - Wood sorrel timing and calendar
11:51 - Little known ways of using wood sorrel!
13:18 - What makes wood sorrel sour?
13:42 - Wood sorrel lookalikes
14:32 - Is wood sorrel the “shamrock” plant?
15:04 - A poisonous lookalike of wood sorrel
References:
Wood sorrel oxalic acid content - www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/13/6/858
Spinach oxalic acid content - journals.ashs.org/hortsci/vie...
Attributions:
Nobody knows what shamrock is - www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
Oxalis tetraphylla - www.flickr.com/photos/peganum...
Oxalis decaphylla - www.flickr.com/photos/aspidos...
Oxalis tuberosa1 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Oxalis tuberosa2 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Oxalis debilis - www.inaturalist.org/observati...
Soybean - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Pumpkin seeds - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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19 июн 2024