Plantain Edible. Plantain seeds are rich in proteins carbohydrates and omega 3 fatty acids. You can use plantain leaf as a poultice for insect bites a plantain tea to improve digestion or soothe bronchitis or a healing plantain salve for helping wounds to heal quickly.
Plantain is also edible and has a long history of use as a medicinal plant including treating bee and wasp stings. Can look a little like Hoary Plantain Plantago media but this has downyhairy leaves and is edible. That plantain is in.
Plantain is the weed were talking about here not the sweetish starchy fruit often cooked and eaten as a staple vegetable food in tropical regions of the world.
Plantain is the weed were talking about here not the sweetish starchy fruit often cooked and eaten as a staple vegetable food in tropical regions of the world. Plantain is also an edible plant. Plantain is high in vitamin C vitamin A vitamin K iron beta-carotene and calcium and is milder tasting when the leaves are small. Edible Parts One of the better flavoured plantains Rugels is not as stringy as broadleaf plantain but it is best if harvested earlier in the season because the leaves become more fibrous with age.
