EatTheWeeds: Episode 25: American Lotus

http://www.eattheweeds.com/?s=lotus

Learn with Green Deane about a prime wild edible, the American lotus, wild food, cousin to the lotus in Asian cooking.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Foraging
• wild
• food
• edible
• plants
• raw
• herbs
• survival
• medicine
• bushcraft
• permaculture
• wildcraft
• Nelumbo
• lutea
• American
• Lotus

[b1gje55e]

the seed pod is very ominous looking

[EatTheWeeds]

It looks like a shower head. Hard to mistake.

[GreenLearning]

Wow, never knew they could be food. I need to transplant some of these along with cat tail to my area.

[EatTheWeeds]

I think the seeds are a prime edible. The lake I showed you in the video was treated with an herbicide last fall to kill the lotus off. This year there are none.

[Khono]

Oooh, it's found here in Ontario too. You say it is a symbol of clean water. I was told that Typha latifolia, cattails should not be eaten from polluted water.  Do you think these Nelumbo lutea mean we can eat Typha latifolia growing in the same water?

[EatTheWeeds]

Well, clean does not mean free of bacteria but they don't like to grow with silt, runoff, and muck. ... the pods are often sold to florists.

[ickycan]

way cool thank you

[yardsnacker]

Perfect again. Still would like to see you prep and eat it.

[kaylashalaylaaaaa]

7:12 i wish i could grow lotus just so i could use them for decoration!

[Khono]

Huh, looking at those seed pods I started to wonder if they'd be good for insulation. Since there are so many it seems likely they don't decay rapidly, one could get many from one season, they have individual pockets of air...

[EatTheWeeds]

I had some of the green seeds tonight. They were delicious... boiled them....I need to go collect some more.. they taste like a cross between a chick pea and a water chestnut... very nice.