EatTheWeeds: Episode 72: Seablite, Seepweed

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Learn about wild food with Green Deane. In this video you'll see a salt tolerant plant that grows along the seashore but also has relatives inland in salty places.

[@debtbully3]

Best show ever made.I watched most 3 or 4 times but have not watched them all yet. You rule!

[@EatTheWeeds]

They get stronger as the season goes on, young and tender is always a good rule ....

[@fbt2007]

Me too. I'm incurably addicted! I check my subscriptions daily to see if Green Deane has posted another video. They are truly enjoyable to watch! One of KZbins finest.

[@YourHumbleServant831]

Thanks for the great video!

[@EatTheWeeds]

Yes, it does have a passing resemblance to dill, a bit stouter... and the branches attach to the stem differently. How a branch attaches to a stem is a major identification element often overlooked. Dill grows like one tube out of an other where as sea blite is more like a clay branch squeezed out of the same material.

[@SCOTTDAVIDSON32]

5 stars! thank you for your teachings

[@EatTheWeeds]

Greater Orlando....but I shot the video at New Smyrna Beach.

[@thanrose]

I've ID'd this before, knew it was edible, but have never eaten it. Some in this family are mild tasting and some are pretty sharp or resinous. I know these are supposed to be salty to varying degrees. I might try some pickled this year. Good video.

[@AlanGarcia-zu4vw]

In mexico they are eaten on Christmas in a dish called romeritos.. nice videos you got very educational!

[@EatTheWeeds]

Thanks voodo.. what's the old line? When you do the voodo you do so well...

[@EatTheWeeds]

All 72! Oh my.... you poor soul... that's some 12 hours of viewing...did you survive in one piece? Heavens, you've got to be sick of me by now.... even I don't watch them all...but thank you....

[@DavidStanleymusic]

Episode 72 your a walking encyclopedia ! hehehe

[@EatTheWeeds]

Part three....yet the key I had said none of the leaves had notches. That is a significant element to omit, or I had the wrong plant entirely. Well, I had the wrong plant entirely, even though it was absolutely right except for one element, the notch in the leaves. This is why you must resist making a plant "fit" the description. It must be 101% right and ruthlessly so or no go... The hardest part is making sure what's in front of you is what you think is in front of you.

[@EatTheWeeds]

Thank you.. I took a couple of weeks off....

[@EatTheWeeds]

Yes, if you use it raw.... the older it is the more salty it is, so young and green isn't too salty, older and pink is,,,

[@boxermomma1918]

How cool! I want to see if I can find any of these

[@EatTheWeeds]

It's good stuff... of course, I did not pick any inside the national park....

[@MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[@animalinteractions]

I thought it looked familiar. I just joined your forum btw.

[@llshamelessll]

another great vid dean, thanks. what area of florida are you in? im in pcola

[@Ghost2743]

Hey Dean, kinda off topic question but u reminded me with the fish comment.. it would be safe to bake fish in sassafras leaves right?? ;Ghost

[@EatTheWeeds]

Part two....worse, some plants that can make you very ill or kill you taste good, so there is no one safe standard. The key to eating wild plants is to be able to read a description and not BS yourself into thinking the plant you have fits. You have to be ruthlessly honest with yourself and others or someone will get sick. I recently keyed out a plant and it all fit but the end of the leaves. My leaves had a notch, the description did not. Most of the leaves had notches...

[@Milkman12114]

Can you use it in soup inplace of sea salt?

[@animalinteractions]

Were you at Eddy Creek?

[@EatTheWeeds]

Yes... it has the least amount of the "offending" chemical which research shows is not offending so.... or let me put it this way. Dr. Duke in 2002 showed that the alcohol in a can of beer is more dangerous than the safrole in a can of root beer yet beer was not taken off the market. .

[@EatTheWeeds]

Probably....

[@EatTheWeeds]

Part one: Oh no... 95% of the plants in an average place -- what ever that is -- cannot be eaten. The known edible plants are around 5%. Greens would be higher, roots far lower. But, some 20,000 plants in North America are unknown for their edibility. That said, I oppose the idea of a universal test of edibility because it is used crutch and a reason not to learn wild edibles. That said, the human mouth is good at identifying real food. Things that taste bitter or sting have issues ....