What if you get LOST? Wild Foods may be
your Only Emergency Relief in Outdoor Survival. Why learn about Wild Foods
C. Jeff Dyrek, Survival Guide
If you get lost in the
woods, learning about wild foods may be your last resort in emergency outdoor
survival, learn from the experts.
Getting
lost in the outdoors can become very critical in just one instance. You
can think you are going the right direction and the next thing you know, you're
lost. This is why wilderness survival and outdoor survival skills are so
important. Emergency survival happens when you are least prepared, so the
best defense to protect your own life is learning emergency survival in every
aspect that is possible. Believe me, it's easier to get lost in the woods
than you think and it always happens when you least expect it.
This is my own personal study list. I may be
wrong on some of these edible and medicinal plants, so be sure to read a lot of
other pages about these edible wild plants and consult with a local expert
before you ever eat any of them.
Agave
Aloe
Alsike Clover
Artichoke
Bermuda Grass
Bind Weeds
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Bishops goutweed
Bittercress
Black Currant
Blackberry
Black Medick
Bush vetch
Butterfly Bush
Californian Thistle
Canadian Thistle
Celeriac
Chewings Fescue
Chia
Chickweed
Chicory
Christmas Cactus
Comfrey
Common vetch
Cow parsley
Creeing Bell-Flower
Creeping Thistle
Crested Dogstail
Crimson Clover
Dahlia
Dandelion
Day Lillies
English Daisy
European Wood Strawberry
Fennel
Field Pansy
Fig
Flowering Maple
Garden Sage
Goats Beard
Grapes
Ground elder
Hawkbits & Cat's-ears
Hawksbeards
Heartsease
Hedge Mustard
Henbit
Hibiscus
Hoary Plantain
Holltychock
Honeysuckle
Horseraddish
Johnny Jump-up
Kentucky Bluegrass
Ice Plants
Italian Ryegrass
Ladys Mantle
Mallows
Marsh Mallow
Meadow Fescue
Meadow Sage
Mullien
Nasturtium
Nettle
Nipplewort
Orchard grass
Oregnao
Peacock Poppy
Perennial Ryegrass
Petunia
Plantains
Pot Marigold
Pickly Pear
Purple Deadnettle
Purple Loosestrife
Purslane
Radish
Raspberry
Reed Fescue
Red Clover
Rough Hawkbit
Sainfoin
Shepherds purse
Stonecrops
Sweet Potato
Tall oat grass
Timothy
Velvet Grass
Watercress
White Clover
White Deadnettle
White Dutch clover
Wild carrot
Wild Rose
Wild Rosemary
Yarrow
Yellow Bedstraw
Listen to Green Deane at
Eat the Weeds.com
Green Deane talks about the types of foods that you may find in your own
backyard that can be used as edible foods.
Daniel Vitalis Interviews Wild Food Expert Arthur Haines 2 of 6
Processed foods are not always what you would think as
terms of commercially processed foods. Food processing is absolutely
necessary for the extraction of food nutrition so that we are able to survive. Some foods are dried, cooked, soaked, crushed and mixed with other foods and even crushed along with limestone to neutralize poisons, bad flavors or to make the nutrients to be able be assimilated by our digestive systems.
Also, look at the mortar and pestle that are used by Arthur
Haines. This so much larger than what you would see in the kitchen or in the
laboratory. This is the size of mortar and pestle that you would need if
you are to process foods for true survival.
From the Webmaster: You have to
remember that watching a TV program about a man surviving for a week is much
different than real survival when you have to make the wilderness your home.
There are different types of tools that you will have to make or bring with you.
Storage of food is also a problem that you must overcome. When you see the
one week survivor, you have to realize that this is a guy that is in tremendous
condition and can live for a week on less than minimum amounts of calories.
For real survival, you have to be able to find enough food so that you can eat
the minimum amount so that you will not become weak and parish. In a
survival situation you will be pushed harder than you every have before so you
will probably need at least four thousand to six thousand calories a day.
That's a lot of food.
This is why food storage and
processing are so important of a subject to learn about. You will not be
able to go out every day and catch your food for that day. You will have
all kinds of other survival chores as well as necessary rest periods, not to
mention weather and seasonal problems. This is why it's not only necessary
to learn to identify your edible and poisonous foods, but, to learn to process
your foods for long term storage. C. Jeff Dyrek
Arthur Haines also talks about the nutrition density of
wild, naturally grown foods and the hybrid, selectively genetically modified
versions of as compared to the wild versions. The wild foods have a higher
nutrient density. larger, fruits for example, would have less nutrition
than the smaller, natural varieties of this fruit.
Health benefits of the natural foods are better because
foods, such as wild rice, are higher in Omega 3 fatty acids ( Anti-Inflammatory
fatty acids), by the order of magnitudes, where the cultivated foods
contain Omega 6 fatty acids (Pro-Inflammatory fatty acids)
Interview with Wild Foods Expert, Arthur Haines 3 of 6
Part of processing, Hickory Nuts shown here, is to increase
the exposed surface area of the crushed foods so that leaching will more
completely extract the nutrients from your wild foods. This leaching
produces a sort of milk from the extraction of the nutrients.
An example that Mr. Haines talks about is the Choke Cherry,
a food who's pit contains poisonous chemicals that produce hydrocyannic acid.
Hydrocyanic acid, mixed in water is a colorless, highly poisonous, volatile
liquid which smells like bitter almonds. The hydrogen cyanide that is
produced has a historically common name of Prussic acid. The chemical
formula is HCN.
Hydrogen
cyanide boils at slightly above room temperature of about 79 degrees
Fahrenheit or 36 degrees Celsius
Cyanide causes your blood not to absorb oxygen, and then
you suffocate. The toxicity of cyanide ion halts your cellular respiration
caused by inhibiting an enzyme in the mitochondria called cytochrome c oxidase.
Hydrocyannic acid comes from fruits that have pits.
This includes apples, apricots, bitter almonds, and cherries as well as other
pitted fruits. So, don't eat the pits unless you know how to properly
process your food. This is the reason that it is very important to listen
to all of these videos.
Interviews Wild Food Expert, Arthur Haines 4 of 6 6 Minutes 47 Seconds.
Kombucha, the health benefits of this fermented beverage.
Also some information on the common St. John's Wort... The Kombucha has
health benefits. Better Sleep, depression, helps in fighting cancer
- especially skin and breast cancer, for severe burns, anti viral, fighting
influenza, and others.
Wild Rice, Daniel Vitalis Interviews Wild Food Expert Arthur Haines, 5 of 6
Talks about Wild Rice and introduces a new tool called the
Rice Knocker.
