Many wild vegetables are edible and have many nutritional values ??and functions. However, some wild vegetables are not edible. If you eat wild vegetables that are not edible, you may be poisoned or suffer from physical discomfort.

What wild vegetables cannot be eaten? Let’s take a look below:

1. Poison hemlock. Also known as wild celery, Pulsatilla, and poisonous ginseng. It grows in moist places, has celery-like leaves, and blooms in summer.

The whole tree is poisonous, and the flowers are the most toxic. After eating, you will experience nausea, vomiting, cold hands and feet, and paralysis of the limbs. In severe cases, death can occur.

2. Wolfsbane grass

Also called wolfberry grass, it is 0.5 to 1 feet tall, with light yellow roots and a sweet taste. The leaves are linear and the flowers are yellow, white or purple.

After eating, you will experience vomiting, heartburn, and abdominal pain, and severe cases can cause death.

3. In the wild

The flowers are purple-red or yellow, shaped like lip-shaped sesame flowers. The roots are yellow, the leaves are hairy, and they have a bitter taste.

Vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness and coma after eating.

4. Qucai Niangzi

The leaves are long and narrow, thick and hard, with serrated edges. The leaves grow close to the ground and sprout stems after autumn, which are 0.5 to more than 1 foot high.

If you eat it, your face will become swollen.

5. Xanthium sibiricum

The seedlings are like soybean sprouts and become thick when adults. The leaves are heart-shaped and have serrations around them. In autumn, they produce seeds with hard thorns.

The whole tree is poisonous, and the young shoots and seeds are the most toxic. Eating it can cause death.

Wild vegetables do not specifically refer to certain vegetables, but are non-artificially grown vegetables. They collect the aura of heaven and earth and absorb the essence of the sun and moon. They are one of nature's treasures. Wild vegetables have pure quality and are a wonderful gift from nature. They are also a testimony of the coexistence between man and nature. Wild vegetables are pollution-free, nutritious, fresh and delicious, and are one of the best ingredients. Wild vegetables are also excellent medicinal materials. But it must be handled well before consumption, otherwise it will have adverse effects.

Clean the wild vegetables thoroughly before eating. After washing, soak the wild vegetables in clean water for no less than two hours. It is necessary to blanch them in hot water before cooking or cooling them. Wild vegetables themselves have a bitter taste, and like Houttuynia cordata, they still have a fishy smell. After soaking and hot water, the fishy smell disappears and the taste becomes better.