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Are all plants edible

Updated: 8/10/2023
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14y ago

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That's a pretty broad question. Almost all plants, or some part of them, have some nutritional value. The number of poisonous ones is actually relatively small, but they can be rather deadly, so I wouldn't just go around eating things. All the fruits and vegetables you find in the markets are, of course, safe to eat. Most grasses are safe to eat. (Oats, barley, rice, corn, wheat, etc.) I would recommend some good books on the subject, such as "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" and others by Euel Gibbons.

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13y ago

Lots of plants are edible. These include:

Leaves

  • Spinach
  • Chard
  • Lettuce
  • Dasheen
  • Endive
  • Cabbage
  • Tea

Roots

  • Potato
  • Carrot
  • Parsnip
  • Yam
  • Cassava
  • Yuca

Seeds/Grains/Nuts

  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Buckwheat
  • Brasil Nut
  • Hazelnut
  • Almond
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Cashew
  • Chestnut
  • Quinoa

Fruits and Vegetables:

  • Pumpkin
  • Squash
  • Eggplant
  • Tomato
  • Peach
  • Plum
  • Pear
  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Orange
  • Lemon
  • Apricot
  • Cherry
  • Strawberry
  • Raspberry
  • Blueberry

Stalks

  • Celery
  • Asparagus

Flowers

  • Artichoke

And many more.....

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12y ago

I am only aware that the pitchers of the Tropical Pitcher Plant are edible,as being a delicacy and popular way of holding and cooking rice is inside of these pitchers in Southeast Asia and Malaysia.

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9y ago

Nope,not all herbs are edible.Some can really be poisonous.Our human body can go without food for 8 hours.So even if you are stranded in the wild make sure you dont eat anything that you don't recognize.Its better to be safe than sorry.

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14y ago

Most of the plants are but not all of them. Some of them can be very dangerous to eat. So show caution when you are in the wild looking for food!

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Not all but quite a lot are some might cure you from illnesses and some may make you internally bleed so be deadly carful about the plants you eat

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9y ago

Not by people. Some plants contain materials that are poisonous. There are plants that can be eaten by some animals, but not by others.

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No, all herbs are not eatable, some are poisonous hence uneatable.

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