Micronutrients & recovery
Integrating wild vegetables into human diets provides a sustainable, cost-effective source of essential micronutrients (iron, calcium, vitamin A, folate) capable of alleviating widespread nutritional deficiencies.
To improve your micronutrient intake, incorporate wild, leafy green vegetables into your diet. These plants often contain higher levels of essential minerals like iron, calcium, and vitamins like A and folate compared to common cultivated vegetables. While processing methods like blanching can affect nutrient retention, consuming these vegetables is a practical and sustainable way to address nutritional gaps, especially if you have access to local wild species.
Integrating wild vegetables into diets has been promoted as the most practical and sustainable way to achieve this, since such vegetables are efficient sources of several important micronutrients, both with respect to unit cost of production and per unit area of land.
Why this rating
The paper is a review citing multiple observational and compositional studies, but notes significant gaps in bioavailability data.
Source
The suitability of wild vegetables for alleviating human dietary deficiencies
Michael V. Flyman et al. · South African Journal of Botany · 2006
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