Healthy nettles are not weeds

Nettles and Health
Nettles: weeds for gardeners, healthy food for gourmets

Nettles are at most garden owners as a weed, but the wild plant is
also popular as a food and it will be the nettles also attributed
several positive characteristics on health.

The aid info service - Food, Agriculture, Consumer protection e. V.
has in a recent press release on the merits of the currently pointed
sprouting everywhere nettles. Thus, according to the information
service especially from the young leaves of the common weeds,
particularly healthy gourmet meals create variety.

Processing of nettle as salad, vegetable or tea
The 'aid' service 'is recommended as the combination of young nettle
leaves with finely-sour dandelion, sorrel and wild garlic for a
delicious wild herb salad. But let also for processing into nettle
soup and as a bonus in the pancakes, scrambled eggs or butter using
the herb supposed weeds, said the aid expert. Also recommended is,
according to aid the preparation 'service as a vegetable. Here, the
leaves should be according to the information service similar to
spinach, blanched first in boiling salted water, chopped after casting
and then heated briefly together with sauteed onions. Experts
recommend to taste the nutmeg, salt and pepper if needed and a squeeze
of lemon juice. For the flavor of the vegetables can be refined with a
little cream. Besides by the aid recommended preparation 'service as a
food, the dried nettles are brewed as a tea, with this rumored
particularly many positive attributes such as the promotion of
metabolism and the relief of urinary tract problems, constipation,
diarrhea, stomach and kidney weakness, rheumatism and gout, be.

Nettles healthy supplement to the diet
The current season is loud "infodienst aid" especially good for
nettle-gathering, since the first approximately 20 centimeters tall
plants unfold in the spring of the best taste. Later in the larger
plants are mainly the shoot tips suitable for processing as food. The
nettles are primarily due to their high content of flavonoids,
minerals (magnesium, calcium and silicon), vitamins (vitamin A,
vitamin C), iron and protein (more protein than soybeans) a healthy
supplement to the diet. To avoid the unpleasant burning nettle hair,
the experts recommend nettles wrapped in a cloth and wring strong,
they showered thoroughly under running water to blanch or as
described. Besides the use as food or tea, nettles are also processed
into tinctures and applied to the scalp as a hair loss reducing effect
of them is assumed.