1, only pick really recognize and confirm that can be eaten wild vegetables.
Spring is here, plants are beginning another season of sprouting, growth, fields, hillsides, riverside and other places in the tender green which includes a lot of edible wild vegetables, but mixed with a lot of poisonous plants sprouted green shoots. In the face of many wild plants, as a non-professional can not grasp the identification of which is edible wild vegetables, which is a deadly poisonous plants. You must first remind yourself to pick only the wild plants that you recognize and know are edible.
Every year in late spring and early summer, there are cases of food poisoning from eating wild vegetables (including wild mushrooms), mainly as a result of consuming plants that you don't recognize. So for your safety, don't pick and eat wild vegetables if you don't recognize them in front of you.
2. Not all plants used as herbal medicine can be eaten as wild vegetables.
Many people think that medicine and food are the same, many plants are Chinese herbs, can be used as medicine of course, can be eaten. Such a paralyzing consciousness is also an important cause of poisoning caused by the consumption of wild vegetables.
"Crow gold, old man silver, eat after the medicine kill," many years ago in the Jidong Plain picking wild vegetables children are often picking wild vegetables will be humming this proverb. The crow's gold mentioned in the proverb is the Rosaceae plant, and the old man's silver is the Umbelliferae plant, wild carrot. This Commissionai and wild carrot is the plant can be medicinal, Commissionai root and whole grass into medicine, with heat detoxification, stopping the bleeding effect; wild carrot whole grass into medicine, with and with the insect repellent, expectorant, detoxification and decongestive effect of the plant, but it is not suitable for consumption as a wild vegetable.
It is medicine, in fact, a lot of wild plants can be used as medicine, but which can be eaten as wild vegetables and not much. Many medicinal plants contain alkaloids that are poisonous to humans, and they fight poison with poison, so they can be used medicinally but not eaten. Therefore, even if you recognize a certain plant can be used medicinally, but do not rush to eat it as a wild vegetable, must be clear that it can be eaten as a wild vegetable after picking and eating.
3, do not pick up the wild vegetables grown in a polluted environment.
Not all plants that can be eaten as wild food are absolutely "green food". Green plants that grow in the wild bear the role of purifying the air for human beings, adsorbing dust particles floating in the air, and degrading and absorbing harmful gases and chemicals in the soil.
In many places due to industrial waste pollution, living garbage pollution caused by environmental pollution is very serious, so growing in the polluted water sources, wetlands nearby, people live in the environment such as the city's green lawn, countryside, village houses around the highway, field ridge on both sides of the wild vegetables, not only adsorption of dust in the air, but also adsorption of harmful chemicals and gases in the soil, into the air with the corresponding harmful chemicals, microorganisms, microorganisms, and so on, and so on. They become pollutants with harmful chemicals, microorganisms, germs and parasite eggs. The wild vegetables picked in these polluted areas, though still tender and tasty, will bring potential health hazards to people with harmful substances and disease-causing microorganisms.
Therefore, it is important to go to areas that are less contaminated or free of pollution and to pick relatively clean wild vegetables as much as possible. It is especially important to check whether the wild vegetables are recently sprayed with pesticides in order to control pests and weeds in rural orchards and crop fields, and to avoid picking wild vegetables from fields that have just been sprayed with pesticides.
4, grasp the correct way to eat wild vegetables.
Eating wild vegetables is good for health, which is known to everyone. But the eating method of wild vegetables is also pay attention to, do not grasp the correct way to eat will be counterproductive, the formation of adverse reactions to the body.
First of all, the wild vegetables can be fried, cold, stuffing, can also be cooked porridge, soup, the key is to choose a different method of consumption according to the characteristics of different wild vegetables. For example, some wild vegetables suitable for raw food, such as endive, dandelion, etc., the best way to eat is to wash and dip the sauce, raw food; some wild vegetables such as watercress, capers, horsetail is suitable for blanching cold food; some wild vegetables such as artemisia buds, bamboo leaves and other mixed with cornmeal is in the taste of the flavor of the unique flavor of the vegetable biscuits; the vast majority of wild vegetables can be blanched and chopped up to mix with the meat stuffing dumplings, buns to eat.
Here is especially important to note that some wild vegetables are not suitable for raw food, raw food may be allergic to the adverse effects of people. Such as wild amaranth can be enriched with nitrates, should be washed and blanched with water before eating, soak in water for about 20 minutes before eating; raw grey cabbage in strong sunlight, may cause allergic solar dermatitis. And Artemisia, amaranth and some other wild vegetables contain harmful alkaloids, before eating medicine with boiling water blanch, and soak in water for a period of time to remove with harmful substances.
5, although the flavor of wild vegetables, but not suitable for a large number or long-term consumption.
Human cultivation of vegetables from a large number of self-generated wild vegetables is after a long period of people's agricultural activities in the choice of results, the reason why the wild vegetables or wild vegetables, is that human beings do not think it can be used as a vegetable from the recipe out of it. In addition to some wild vegetables have special medicinal value, in terms of taste and nutritional value, many wild vegetables can not be compared with planted vegetables.
Agriculture is highly developed today, many wild vegetables may be domesticated into new vegetable varieties through human agricultural activities, which mainly depends on the needs of mankind, if a certain kind of wild vegetables are considered suitable for long-term consumption, mankind will also be used to domesticate it for large-scale cultivation and production of vegetable varieties, such as endive, dandelion, amaranth, etc., is also known as the wild vegetable plants are now available in artificial Cultivation, I believe that in a few years they will be domesticated and become vegetables, thus changing the identity of wild vegetables.
More of the reason why the wild vegetables are still wild vegetables, it shows that some aspects of these wild vegetables are not suitable for long-term human consumption, long-term, large quantities of wild vegetables is likely to have an adverse effect on human health, we must eat in moderation, not because of the taste of the wild vegetables in large quantities or long-term consumption.