Learn how to identify, gather, and prepare pokeweed shoots, one of the greatest vegetables on the planet that almost nobody has tried before.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing the best vegetable in the world
01:33 - How to identify pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)
02:06 - Pokeweed consumption precautions
02:35 - Common foods that require proper preparation
03:08 - The right stage to harvest pokeweed
05:58 - Where to find pokeweed
06:27 - When is it too late to harvest pokeweed?
06:52 - Can you eat pokeweed berries?
07:27 - Pokeweed lookalikes
07:58 - Symptoms of eating raw pokeweed
08:33 - Is pokeweed deadly?
09:39 - Debunking a commonly referenced toxicology case
11:23 - Traditional pokeweed food uses around the world
12:05 - How to prepare pokeweed shoots to eat
13:48 - Another edible plant you should know
References:
Kentucky toxicology history - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0041010122003130
Ohio Weed Guide - https://weedguide.cfaes.osu.edu/singlerecord.asp?id=112
Camping Toxicology Case - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-59259-020-9
North American Ethnobotany - http://naeb.brit.org/
Uses in Nepal - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530312/
Uses around the world - https://brill.com/display/title/68923
Attributions:
Conboy inat (Pokeweed July) - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125921075
hb2000 inat (Pokeweed July) - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125696772
Phytolacca octandra - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytolacca_octandra_(14497507826).jpg
Japanese knotweed - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoutria_japonica_in_Brastad_1.jpg
Knotweed leaf - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoutria_japonica_leaf_(47).jpg
Knotweed iNat1 - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158797340
Knotweed iNat2 - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162756180
Knotweed splotches - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoutria_japonica_stem_(21).jpg
Kidney bean - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Speckled_Kidney_Beans.jpg
Cassava - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malpighiales_-_Manihot_esculenta_-_1.jpg
Knotweed group - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoutria_japonica_-_Japanese_knotweed,_Japanintatar,_Parkslide_C_IMG_6997.jpg
Knotweed leaves - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoutria_japonica_leaf_(31).jpg
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