On 06/09/2020 11:10, Nick Maclaren wrote:
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If anyone is interested, almost all of those are good eating (and not
just edible) as spinach alternatives and when flowering or when seeds
are just developing as 'broccolis'. A pain to pick, because they are
all small, and it's a little surprising that fat hen doesn't seem to
have been adopted as a cultivated plant. Quinoa, magenta spreen and
a few others are cultivated, mainly in south America, and I have
grown and eaten a few.

The seeds are edible, too, but I found them to be mostly husk. I don't
know how to remove that.


The European species with a history of cultivation for culinary use is
Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry).

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SRH