Health Fusion: A common weed becomes a superfood
Would you eat a weed that grows in sidewalk cracks if it was really good for you? In this episode of NewsMD's podcast, "Health Fusion," Viv Williams digs up some research on the health benefits of purslane.
7:00 pm, Aug. 3, 2021
Who knew that a morning of weeding would morph into an obsession about the plant that's trying to crowd out our dahlias. I pulled a huge pile of what is said to be a nutritional powerhouse. Purslane.
I didn't know about the health benefits of purslane until, coincidentally, I texted a friend while taking a break from yanking the stuff out of my garden. We chatted about food for an upcoming get-together and she said she'd been eating a lot of purslane lately because of its health benefits and there's tons of it in her yard. I Googled it and realized I was about to throw away nutritional gold.