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2024, Bruce R French, Food Plants International
- Some are used as vegetables
- Some for flavouring
- Some are used to make tea drinks
- They are added to soups and stews
- Usually it is the young leaves that are used
- Often a mixture of leaves are eaten together
- Normally cook all leaves to remove bacteria and destroy poisons like cyanide