Which greens are best?

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on August 27, 2008 at 10:42pm

The first time I had kale I got hot all over. I don't know if it was a niacin flush or kirlian energy or what but it was intense!

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Permalink Reply by Pop Hiya on August 27, 2008 at 11:12pm

greens seem to focus my mind, and center me as well. When I study I tend to drink green juices!

my fave greens? hmm... collard greens, bok choy, green kale, celery, cucumber, sweet romaine lettuce, zucchini, buttery boston lettuce, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Erin on August 28, 2008 at 7:47pm

Kale is the only food I've ever eaten that has made me feel really happy- almost giddy for no good reason. It's a fun feeling:)

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Permalink Reply by Pop Hiya on August 27, 2008 at 11:13pm

ditto, i sometimes crave plain spinach juice, but since I heard about spinach irradiation i've been avoiding it. sad spinach

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Permalink Reply by Bryonna on August 28, 2008 at 9:48am

Yup, organic spinach won't be irradiated

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Permalink Reply by Desert Raw on August 29, 2008 at 5:54pm

If you buy organic spinach from a local grower that you trust, I would say that would be true. Once middlemen and distributors get involved, you have to trust the buyers at your store/CoOp to stay on top of things. As I understand it to date, Irradiated and GMO foods do not have to be labeled as such. An example a master gardener on a public radio show brought up was the fact that you can buy "organic" tomato seeds to grow in your garden. There is no law that states that a company can't grow a GMO tomato organically and sell it as "Organic Tomato" seeds. By the letter of the law, the tomato seeds are from organic tomatoes. By the spirit of the law I would expect that anyone going out of their way to buy organic tomato seeds to grow their own tomatoes would not want to eat a GMO tomato, but seed companies get away with that kind of stuff. :( I remember living in Austin, TX when Whole Foods only had two stores to the whole company and was building the third. Back then they would have signs in the produce area and information about GMO and irradiation laws and what could be happening to their produce through no fault of their own. So it was "buyer beware and get active with our law makers to moderate this insanity". That is back when Whole Foods was beholden to their customers first. Now that they are beholden to their stock holders first, that interest in informing the customer about some of the shadier sides of food and getting people interested in protecting themselves seems to have gone by the wayside. :(

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Permalink Reply by Meredith S on August 27, 2008 at 10:59pm

I'm nuts for collards, but then in my mosty cooked days I had an iron deficiency, so I developed a taste for them. I don't know if they have quite the nutritional value of kale, but I sure do love 'em.

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Permalink Reply by idarastar on August 27, 2008 at 11:08pm

Dark ones. :-P

I'm a kale addict. Lacinato to be exact.
I also eat a lot of arugula, spinach, collards, dandelion and sea greens.
I've started some wheatgrass as well.

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Permalink Reply by Ian on August 28, 2008 at 6:04am

I really like spinach - the flavor, the texture, and the nutritional content. Spinach has all the essential amino-acids nor prodiced by the body:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-product...

I also had been treated to a wild-edibles lesson on my recent visit to Ashevill, NC (I really, really need to move to this place) and I had tasted, for the first time, lambsquarters. Delicious!! Almost sweet tasting, and even more potent than spinach on the amino-acid scale:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-product...

I love greens. I think I will eat nothing but them today :-)

Ian

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Permalink Reply by Meredith S on August 28, 2008 at 9:20am

I love Asheville :-)

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Permalink Reply by Tracey Anne Miller on August 28, 2008 at 10:10am

I think parsley with dandelion leaves and spinach and kale are tops for me......along with the sea weeds. I believe nettles would rank pretty high, too.......however, I never seen to be able to find any on my hikes.

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Permalink Reply by idarastar on August 28, 2008 at 6:22pm

Thanks for the links!! I LOVE hemp! I will be attending a Hempfest this weekend. I believe hemp is the answer to many troubles in the world: oil, food, textiles...
I'm in the process of writing a letter to my state government about industrial hemp growth.

I don't think the leaves will "get you high" only the flower itself.

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