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EatTheWeeds: Episode 48: Saw Palmetto
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Description: Learn about wild food with Green Deane, this time a the saw palmetto, native food and modern medicine. … bushcraft edible food Foraging herbs medicine palmetto permaculture plants raw saw serenoa survival wild wildcraft
25 Comments
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am
That’s out of my league. The best I can tell is:
देखा Palmetto
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:41 am
thanx for give the information i need a littel more help from u. you seems much knowledge about the weed or herbs just tell me what called saw palm in ( hindi or urdu ) if you dont know you must have links to find out . i am so much graetfull to you for helping me .
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:50 am
Usually September and October, give or take a week or two depending upon the weather.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:06 am
in which season in mean month saw palm,, is fuirting ?
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:11 am
Great Video , Thank you for sharing.
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:00 am
IN your home? If it is inside it is probably not a saw palmetto. If outside, is it fruiting? Send me a picture.
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 am
hey i have a plant in my home it 100% look like saw palmetto but i m not sure is it ! . b coz i cant found any person who tell me that it really saw plmto . then how could i sure about it . plz guide me
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:41 am
While Dickenson said the chief “ate of them greedily” among living Seminole Indians is the saying of don’t eat more than five at a time. Their flavor is very strong and I suspect if you eat more than five you won’t taste anything else for several hours. Even when you eat one the flavor l lasts a long time. The oil, the fatty acids, coat your mouth. No doubt it is an acquired taste. There is a good reason why it comes in a tasteless capsule.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 am
I haven’t eaten saw palmetto berries off of a tree, but I would assume a good handful would be enough each day. Perhaps I should take more than the indicated amount of capsules per day?
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:06 am
As saw palmetto berries are high in oil certainly no more than two, probably just one. That is my best guess.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Sorry about all the questions. One last one. I have a saw palmetto extract supplement that contains 376mg of extract standaridized to 320mg fatty acids. How many saw palmetto berries would you say this is equivalent to?
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
And in Japan, do they really drink soy milk or is that a Western thing? Is their source of soy chiefly tofu and/or edamame and/or miso/tempeh/natto?
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Ah. Maybe you can help me on two fronts.
1. On some hair loss sites some guys claim saw palmetto gave them sexual side effects. Take it with a grain of salt because it’s hard to independently assign a potential cause to a problem if a guy is also taking or has taken pharmaceuticals. I’ve also heard it was given to soldiers in WWII to reduce their sexual desires. Are you sure saw palmetto is safe? Isn’t it related to acai?
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I lived in Japan for a few years… long ago…
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:54 pm
thx 4 ur quick reply,greet 4m japan ^^
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Thanks for writing. The other parts (the core and where the fronds go into the core) can be eaten raw and are mild tasting. In fact, you can buy heart of palm in the grocery story that tastes the same. It is the fruit that is the gustatory challenge. They are an acquired taste.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
i hope u demonstrate eating other parts,not just the fruit…
anyway just my curiosity….
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January 22nd, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Should the time come when I need one I’ll think twice because the flavor is very strong.
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I hear you lightly boil five palmetto dried berries and the dry leaves of one Turnera plant. It’s supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Five in one sitting over the course of a few minutes, if you can eat them that fast. They are strong. In fact, it is the aftertaste that has all the muscle. The initial taste is quite pleasant then that same flavor blasts off.
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
When you say five at a time, do you mean five in one handful or five in one sitting, if that sitting is say an hour or two?
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Clearly the ate a lot of them in the past, but the Seminole Indians have a saying, only eat five at a time… More than that and I think the mouth rebels.
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Is there a limit as to how much saw palmetto we can eat each day?
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:22 pm
They are both palms but that is like saying beagles and Great Dame are similar dogs. Both palms have a lot of fat but the fat profile is different. More so, the saw palmetto is a very strong flavor that is hard to moderate. Most folks will not find it palatable.
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm
I read that saw palmetto is related to the acai, so do they have similar nutritional/health benefits? At Whole Foods, they don’t have any saw palmetto drink but they have several acai ones (which taste great).