Everyone needs to eat this plant at least once! Have you?
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Published 2024-06-20
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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/view/journals/hortsci/43…
Attributions:
Nobody knows what shamrock is - www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/no-one-really-…
Oxalis tetraphylla - www.flickr.com/photos/peganum/5873394206/
Oxalis decaphylla - www.flickr.com/photos/aspidoscelis/10234433656/in/…
Oxalis tuberosa1 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OxalisTuberosa.jpg
Oxalis tuberosa2 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kluse_-_Oxalis_tub…
Oxalis debilis - www.inaturalist.org/observations/39278313
Soybean - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr-090611-0620-…
Pumpkin seeds - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumpkin_Seeds_macr…
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All Comments (21)
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Who is going to forage for wood sorrel now? 🙋♂ Seriously, try out that wood sorrel tea. It tastes amazing!
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Long time ago, back in the early 1970s, as a young girl, I had a small wildflower patch that I called my flower garden. My Mama & Daddy, mowed over my beautiful flowers, telling me that all they were was weeds. I never forgot that small plant with the pretty little yellow flowers. Now, I know that was Wood Sorrell. ❤
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Purple Oxalis (purple leaves) is my favorite plant. It goes to sleep at night, closing its leaves and then opens them hours later as it wakes up with the sunrise. 💜☘️
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I've made some 'lemon bars' with wood sorrel leaves and buds. I ground them to a paste in a mortar and pestle and then replaced about half the lemon juice in the recipe with the pulp. they don't look very pretty, but they taste great!
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We used to eat this as children. We called it pickle grass
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In Poland, we have a traditional spring /summer dish - soup from wild field sorrel. We serve it with hard-boiled eggs. I'm not sure is it true, but egg is supposed to neutralise oxalates. I've eaten this soup hundreds of times and I love it.
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That is the first wild plant that my Grandfather taught me in 1961 and it is usually the first one that I will show someone else. I'm still eating it mostly because of its abundance and flavor.
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I love making Iced white clover and wood sorrel tea. Soooooo refreshing on these 90 degree days. 1 cup of white clover tops 1/2 - 1 cup wood sorrel Add to 1 quart mason jar. Add boiling water and fill jar. Cap and let cool. Leave the jar in the refrigerator overnight. Work in the yard. Come in abd strain your cold tea into a glass and love it! ❤
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Finally someone refers to it as “sour grass”. I think you’re the first person I’ve seen use that term. That’s what my grandfather called it when he taught me about it in Alabama. We ate quite a lot as children, and my favorite are the “tiny okra” seed pods.
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Wood sorrel! One of my favorites! I've been eating it since I was 3 so more than 50 years. I also taught all 4 of my kids and both my grands. I didn't know it came in purple or pink. Thank you for that.
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I didn't know this was a thing. As a small child I would eat these when no one was looking, or as a gag if others were around(well pretending it was a gag anyway since that was less embarrassing than just admitting to enjoying eating random plants) I clicked on this video excited to see a new thing only to be hit with the nostalgia of one of my guilty pleasures growing up that I had completely forgotten about. Recovering lost memories is always interesting.
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I've been cultivating wood sorrel that I domesticated for about 6 years and it is one of my favorite herbs!!!
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My parents showed me wood sorrel when I was a child, and since then I've been unable to resist picking a few whenever I see them. They're so tasty!
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I guess the good side of the fear-mongering over the oxalic acid, the morel mushrooms, etc is that the less # ppl eating these items, the more there is for the rest of us! Yay!
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It's so cool to hear someone talking about this! My brother and I called them Sour Grass growing up and I loved to snack on it. Now I encourage it to grow in my lawn and garden. It's so tasty!
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Oxalic acid looks like a balloon dog
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This channel had such a small subscriber count not very long ago, glad to see it taking off so quick 🚀 People like quality content, this stuff is undeniable, well done! 👏
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I learned about this plant when I was a young kid, over 60 years ago. I learned it from old timers, all my friends and myself would grab a bunch while out playing to eat. I still do so as well as having showed my children when they were young and now my grandchildren. It has always amazed people how flavorful they are when I show people. Glad to see this video and it's detail explaining the safety in eating it. Another great video, thanks.
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I used to eat them as a kid. We called them pickle flowers.
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Man I’ve been looking for this plant for over a decade. We would forge for it in Mexico but I was 4 so I couldn’t remember what it looked like or its name but I could remember how good it was
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