What are the healthiest greens? How about baby greens? Or green sprouts? Green grasses?

I know that our soil these days is depleted, so are greens are not as packed with nutrients that they once were.

Thanks!

Wheatgrass I believe, then kale. Check [nutritiondata.com]

Narz, thanks for the link. If Wheatgrass does not contain gluten, then I'll try it. I had a fruit & green drink with kale, this morning and it was delicious!

My understanding is that Dandelion Greens are some of the healthiest - and that most of the dark, leafy greens are good in their own way.

-David Z. Mason

They all have different levels of nutrients, so I don't really think that one is better than another. To get all your nutrients in balance it is best to have a variety. I prefer the tender greens since they are more palletable for me personally.

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> My understanding is that Dandelion Greens are some
> of the healthiest - and that most of the dark,
> leafy greens are good in their own way.
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> -David Z. Mason


Oh yeah, I forgot about those. They're also one of the toughest. Chemists have been trying for years to figure out the best way to kill them and they just keep on popping up, gotta love it.

The darkest ones are your best bet. They don't have to be green, red/purple is also great.

The tops are

in the spinach family (goosefoots)
chard, spinach, beet greens

in the lettuce family (composites)
romaine, bibb/boston, dandelion, redleaf, greenleaf

in the crucifer family
kale, turnip greens, collards, bok choi

Choose from all three, but the mild lettuces are easiest to eat a lot of.

Yes, the baby ones are better, milder, sweeter. If you have the choice between the bigger and the smaller sized leaf (or veggie or fruit) the smaller one is going to be more nutritious. Usually there is a better surface are to volume ratio which means a more highly concentrated source of vitamins, minerals, and protective phytochemicals.

I eat sprouts, too, but I can't eat enough of them to make an appreciable contribution to my kcals. They are more like a condiment than a starring role in diet.

When I buy greens, it's a different one, so the dandelion greens are next.

I keep telling my friends and family that green smoothies are hip and cool.. and most of us want to be hip..haha.. bribery has been used in worst ways. I make them fruit & greens smoothies and they love them.

Wild greens. Most nutritious and free!

Rob

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I drink my fresh green juice like it's medicine. I try to vary the greens, but I really like adding a small amount of dandelion greens. My fav. is celery, carrots, spinach, and dandelion greens.

I didn't care for wheatgrass juice..not that I didn't like it..it is actually sweet..but for some reason just didn't feel right to me. It could be that I was/am not ready for health wise for it.

Love,
Prism

Forgot to mention Plants for a Future website which has a great database of plants and tell you which are edible: [www.pfaf.org] So many of the plants called "weeds" are actually delicious foods!

Rob

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Rob Hull - Funky Raw
My blog: [www.rawrob.com]

I like wild greens alot too!! Dandilions are really good and excellent for helping keep liver and kidneys and stuff well cleansed and other good ones are lambsquarters and plantain and purslane and stuff

The best of the wild greens though is of course stinging nettles. They're one of the must nutritious greens in the world!!!

hey hot stuff, I say umm spinach and Bok choy

Thats what I been using lately too!!! I can't really find wild greens at this time of year and of the cultivated greens oh ya for sure spinach then bok choy is the top of the list I find bok choy alot!!! easier to digest than kale is too

oh don't forget parsley too!!! Its actually a herb so its very potent its often best mixed with other greens too like spinach and bok choy and tatsoi and stuff.

I do love my greens

I want to agree that wild greens are great. I have a tiny semi-wild garden just outside the apartment that supplies me with more greens than I need. I don't know the names of most of what's growing but the only thing that I've never eaten from it is the rare grass blade that pops up now and again. Some of those guys taste great too. I remember when I lived in Santa Cruz sometimes eating the Miner's Lettuce that grows wild. Americans may remember from your history books that this is the plant that Indians in California introduced to the miner-49'ers that kept them from getting scurvy. Or am I getting it wrong?!



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My experience tells me that the best greens are freshly picked tender greens. So, I am planting them around my backyard!

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Wheatgrass or no wheatgrass?

I'm so confused. I know I need to eat more greens. And I have been reading a lot.. maybe too much because some sites and people say the stuff is great and others say it is toxic.

I see that for every person who says something is a miracle food for them, another person says that same thing is "toxic." If you think it is toxic, can you tell me exactly why?

I have always thought that we all need to find our own way. Fruitarian for some. Lots of fasting for some. All or mostly greens for some. Rainbow diet for some. 80-10-10 for some. I don't think there is one perfect one size fits all.

For green smoothies, I like dandelion greens with banana and some water - really simple and satisfying. When using kale, I am conservative with the amount of kale I put in because I was overdoing it, and it was not tasty to me.

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