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NAME: Mustard
SPECIES / FAMILY: Sinapis Arvensis / Brassicaceae
OTHER COMMON NAME(S): Wild Mustard, Field Mustard, Charlock
CONDITIONS: sun
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TASTE |
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SEASON |
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Leaves |
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hot/mustard |
RAW/COOK |
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Flowers |
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RAW/COOK |
Summer |
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Seeds |
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hot/mustard |
RAW/COOK |
Summer |
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Stalk/Stem |
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PORTION: small-medium
COMMENT: Soups, Salads, Pesto. Young leaves for salads, older leaves dried or cooked as herb. Flowers can be used to flavor wine or vinegar. “Flowering stems – cooked, a pleasant, cabbage/radish flavour, they can be used as a broccoli substitute before the flowers open. The stems should be lightly steamed for no more than 5 minutes. The flowers can also be cooked as a vegetable or used as a garnish. Seed - it can be sprouted and eaten raw. A hot flavour, it can be added to salads and sandwiches. The seed can be ground into a powder and used as a food flavouring. It has a hot mustard flavour. An edible oil is obtained from the seed.” (1)
CAUTION: Can cause irritation as with any hot and spicy food. Read “source” links below for cautions.
NUTRITION/MEDICINAL: Bach. The plant is used in Bach flower remedies - the keywords for prescribing it are 'Black depression', 'Melancholia' and 'Gloom'. (1)
LOOK-A-LIKE & RELATED:
Yellow
Rocket
POISONOUS LOOK-A-LIKES: Senecio glabellus when young, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packera_glabella
OTHER USES: Oil; An edible semi-drying oil is obtained from the seed. It is also used in making soap[74] and burns well so can be used for lighting. (1)
SOURCE LINKS (may include nutritional and medicinal info, plus other uses):
- https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Sinapis+arvensis
- http://www.eattheweeds.com/cutting-the-wild-mustard-brassica-sinapis-2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinapis_arvensis
- http://survivalweekly.com/719/wild-mustard
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wild_Mustard_Plant_Selective_Breeding.svg
- http://thecarrotrevolution.com/wild-foraging-cooking-with-wild-mustard
