Can you eat japanese knotweed raw

It has just come up in this area of Wisconsin. But, I think it is Bohemian Knotweed. Which supposedly is a cross with Japanese and Giant knotweed. Is this also edible? I have been trying to find info on the berries, are they also useful medicinally?

Cooked, sugar, or just tincture? We have Giant Knotweed growing in our yard. It was starting to spread, and we recently started digging and chopping it out, bagging the soil, as well, as I read that it is very easy to grow.

Is the Giant Knotweed also edible? I am interested in how to prepare the roots as a resveratrol supplement. There are deep red veins in the roots. I am interested in finding out more about this plant. Can it be grown in containers and kept to a reasonable size, in order to harvest the useful parts of the plant, but not decimate native plant life? Dry stems of all the knotweed species are good as a fuel, for heating, of high caloric value. Others see it as a very important medicine.

Apparently it holds large amounts of resveratrol which has successfully treated lyme disease and heart disease…The main healing properties are in the roots. Hard plant to control though but the Japanese have used it as an extreme healing plant for centuries…. Resveratrol is what this weed can do better than any other!

What it does with cells is what it does as a plant it just keeps growing not good for pregnant woman unless you want a very big baby haha! Cells are like seeds growing other cells but than they stop and die out its a bio nano program in the DNA. Combine this plant with rye grass telomersa enzymes hyluronic acid amino acids glucose and B 17 vitamins nutmeg olive oil bio oil!

And you stay young and even regenerate all your cells back to a very youth full 25 year old In one tenth of the time it took to get old! Not bad but most people are happy to die young and let there bodies rot? And I can already hear you say prove it hahahah I can prove it but the best thing to do is try it add it all to some good collagen and exercise than look at the results in just a few weeks.. The only bad thing is some body parts never stop growing like the nose and some skin but that can be sorted out!

My point here is your body is a plant that needs respect just like knot-weed or it gets out of control but knot weed keeps on living and give it a chance it would take over the world!

You are made of star dust super novas wow billions of years old and we are all the same age at the atomic level so just relax eat the weeds read the last page of the bible and learn that heaven will help you if you help yourself! There is no death with the knot weed so become the weed and lets chat for a few million years hahahahha why not weed hahhahahahahah lol xxx. VERY interesting comment! I am taking Knotweed as a natural antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease.

Could you please provide a little more detail on your comment below concerning Japanese Knotweed? I find it fascinating and like to know more.

Atommix Tell me more. I believe you. You would know. Do you mean combine all those ingredients and eat- or put on your face? Do you take knotweed in casule form or raw or cooked as a food? Would this destroy the Oxalic acid? I am not a chemist, but with other plants that have oxalic acid heating does not get rid of the acid. The only way to decrease the level of oxalic acid in foods that I know of is by fermenting them.

I must try this spring to do some JK culturing. I have heard that goats can eat this and it does no harm. Or maybe borrow the neighbors goats occasionally. We have quite a bit of knotweed in our back yard and since we moved here 6 years ago, we have been trying to get rid of it or at least keep it mowed back a bit.

We discovered that the previous owner used the yard as a dump! Is it safe to eat, regardless of the soil components? I live on a main road in a small city, so there is a bit of pollution and my yard sloops downward, so probably some runoff as well.

Please let me know what your thoughts are on if I should eat this or not risk it due to the unknown. Thank you! Important questions, Emily, regarding the possible contamination of the area in which a plant is growing that you are considering eating. Green Deane does cover that issue on this site and in his videos on YouTube. One sobering consideration is that few plants anywhere can be considered NOT to have been exposed to contaminants of some kind, at some level.

Actually, few foods of any kind have not been exposed to some kind of pollutant or contaminant, even the packaging often transfers harmful synthetic chemicals to our foods.

Being close to a busy road, especially downhill from one, would concern me, regardless of other possible contaminants. Glass, of course, is basically inert, and composed of fused silica; other than concerns about what might have been stored in glass containers now broken, the only concern about glass is the potential for cuts. From sand it came, and to sand it will return- if crushed it essentially just becomes sand again.

Hello, and thanks for the great article. Do you know if stalks are still edible boiled if they are already feet tall? Or are just the small shoots edible when they first come up? The stalks are about 3 ft tall around April Choose sturdy, juicy looking ones and cut off at the base. As soon as possible, with friends present and a little pilsener, cut each stem from knot to knot and hand the bits out. Enjoy with a small glass of pilsener or similar beer, not wine. As a kid we used to put dried rhubarb leaves and dried Burdock leaves in a pipe and smoke them… very hot, very bad, but you know kids….

I am in the high desert. I love weeds for my livestock. Where could I get these seeds? My goats could easily handle to overgrowth. And it snows here so it would die down in winter. Thanks for all the info. Do you have any good leads or links to eradicating JK? Bamboo eradication info online was ominous, nothing seems to work. After finding your site, I may try eating the shoots until the thing is gone! Removing Japanese Knotwood is a herculean task which usually involves removing a lot of soil.

Eating it is revenge. Great to have ideas of how to use Japaese Knotweed. Japanese Knotweed is the source for many resveratrol supplements, not grapes as many assume. To this end, I would like to add a cautionary note.

I found the accounts of ankle pain compelling enough to stop taking mg Reseveratrol supplements. My ankle pain is fading for the first time in over six months, and nearly gone in just a week. In another week, I expect it will be entirely cleared. Prior to that I thought I must have injured my foot somehow, except that the pain kept going month after month without letting up. In hindsight, that pain appears to have been provoked by inflammation of the vessels that transverse the top of the foot in reaction to a daily mg.

I have read studies suggesting resveratrol may help with degenerative disc disease, a type of pain that is very difficult to treat this was the reason I began taking it.

However, inflammation from an allergic reaction is counterproductive to pain management. Allergic reactions can come in many forms, not just the itchy rash or watery eyes most of us think of.

Perhaps reseveratrol from another source would not provoke the same reaction — it could be the Japanese Knotweed, not the resveratrol per se, that is the culprit. One would think it appropriate to bring non-manufactured food. One guy did just that.

Strawberry-rhubarb pie. Two of them. Not even close. Japanese knotweed does taste very much like rhubarb. I know. I baked them.

Great story! Thanks for sharing your knotweed sharing. Did you TELL anyone it was rhubarb? Or did all just assume? I have this Japanese knot weed growing on my property what could be done to remove it is there any chemical maybe gasoline etc to kill this plant please inform me thank you.

From my research, the best strategy to remove JK from an area seems to be to cut and eat the shoots or have goats eat the plants many times until the roots run out of stored energy. This will probably take a few years! The problem with invasives is they replace native plants which feed far, far more creatures than just humans. Japanese knot weed, of course, is not to blame, but the reality is it takes over so voraciously that no other plants can grow. The JNW many feed some pollinators in the fall, a good thing , but the reality is it limits native diversity severely.

But, the truth is we are devastating the larger life community, and sadly, JPN is one more way in which we are doing so…. Good point. Ruby-throated hummingbirds, an indigenous species, are said to prefer the blossoms of the introduced mimosa or silk tree over all others, for instance.

Not to mention the plants that rely on the native hummingbirds to pollinate their flowers. Hi, I did bled some raw leaves, taken on big stalks, and blend those with a little water, and some sugar. Then I extracted the juice, just by pressing the pulp through a sieve. I got a real nice green juice. It smells like fresh cut grass, but the taste is nice. Hi, No one seemed to mention Stephen Buhner who has done a lot of research on invasives weeds and plants.

Along with eating them I would think it a treasure to have at least in some fashion. Many mentioning Lyme which I got two years ago. He has a number of books out and a website. I would love to have a controlled form of it here in Florida yet I see the major issue.

I did look up Brazillian pepper on a Rainforest Herb Site which is rampant here in Florida on his premise that invasives grow in areas where they may be most needed.

Teasel root is another example and one used by Lyme sufferers While not edible, the Brazillian pepper tincture I made as they do in South America helped me with a very serious UTI. And the Japanese knotweed is something I used with my Lyme. Just another FYI. His book Healing Lyme disease Confections I really read in depth and Japanese Knotweed is on the top of his list in many cases.

He has a number of very good books out. A lot of info on knotweed on his website as well. There is an Orwellian campaign of hate against this plant, and a veritable industry devoted to its extermination.

They were queuing down the road to get a table - word must have got out that knotweed was on the menu! So, with all these health benefits, is the answer to the Japanese knotweed problem: go out and eat it all? Well, no. To begin with, not all parts of the plant are edible as with rhubarb and they are only edible at a certain time of the year. The shoots in the spring are tender enough to eat, but they have to be gathered before the stems become hard and woody.

The ideal time to eat knotweed is mid-April to May. With only part of the plant being used this leaves the rest of the knotweed in situ to continue growing. It is also important to note that removing knotweed from its site of origin without taking it to a registered landfill, is against the law and could leave you open to prosecution by the Environment Agency.

There is one other consideration. In the midth century, though, a horticulturist brought one plant back to his nursery in Holland, and soon was selling it all over Europe to gardeners who liked it for its resemblance to bamboo and its ability to grow everywhere. View on Instagram. Tama Matsuoka Wong , who, under the name Meadows and More , provides foraged plants for quite a few prominent New York restaurants, ranging from Gramercy Tavern to Semilla to Daniel , says knotweed was actually the first thing she foraged, some five or more years ago, and only because it was unavoidable.

So Wong tried it, and liked it. It tastes like rain. If so, what do you recommend? At that stage, they may be firm and not hollow yet. Have the salad raw with some fish poultry. Knotweed was dropped into one of my garden boxes about 4 years ago, I find uses for it at every growth stage. When I gets bigger I garnish or line plates with the leaves. When it gets tall and sturdy I use it as strengthening poles for climbing plants like tomatoes or peppers.

It is truly a plant that keeps giving all through the growing season! Thank you so much for this. I had been scrolling around looking for knotweed recipes. I made this puree although my stalks ended up being a bit tall and woody even after some peeling so I strained the puree. I would actively seek this out and make it again.

Thank you so much! Pleas call it what it is- I am extremely allergic to it! I almost had to go to the ER- my throat and lips swelled up! In this time of corona virus, this plant is a gift from God. The tincture made from Japanese Knotweed rhizomes is excellent for quelling inflammation cytokine storms in the lungs and other parts of the body.

Oh, they have. I realize that one cannot make the aforesaid generalization for all plant-inspired pharmaceutical compounds, but my research has shown it to be the case for more than one. Let them do it right.

I used a Norwegian recipe for rhubarb soup, replacing rhubarb with knotweed, and it was delicious. Its good warm or cold, but when it was cold I could top it with a spoon of whipped cream. Kids loved it too. Alan, if the goal is to just preserve the knotweed in the freezer, is there any reason not to omit the sugar and just freeze the unsweetened puree?

Of course you can freeze it as is in my opinion. And the big advantage is that if you freeze it unsweetened you can later incorporate it into sweet OR savoury recipes. The flavors of the asparagus and the knotweed seem to play pretty well.

Hi Carla, I just ate a bowl of crispy knotweed stem dill pickles that were sitting on the counter after lunch without dripping brine on my keyboard. I peeled the stalks right to the top because they are easy to peel and the fibres can be rather annoying and then split them so that I could pack them together into the jar.

You can use a plastic bag full of brine too but I avoid plastic all I can. Very simple, very good. I very much appreciate your comment about the pharmaceutical industry. Thanks for the details, Jacqui! Best regards. Japanese Knotweed has become a big problem in Ireland. There are signs put up on roadsides warning people not to cut it down as even a tiny fragment of the plant can take root. I think it is even illegal to put into compost bins.

Rhubarb is known to go well with mackerel so I was thinking knotweed might be a good accompaniment to mackerel too.

I could definitely see that, mackerel is such a nice, fatty fish. Try my lacto knotweed pickles I posted recently—really good with fish. I grew up with knotweed Japanese rhubarb on our property. It is much more visually appealing than many other wild plants. I watched my mom eradicate an entire acre of the stuff when she decided to turn the back yard formerly untamed growth into a lawn. With regular mowing. Some animals such as deer will forage it. Has anyone tried their hand at making WINE with it yet?

In parts of the world where hunger is a real problem — plants like this are a God-send.