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Eating Comfrey Plants: A Complicated Traditional Food

https://foragerchef.com/comfrey-plant... Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is mostly known as a medicinal plant for making salves, etc, and something people grow to use as fertilizer in a garden. The plant also has a tradition of being used as a food, specifically the spring leaves. The thing to take into consideration and balance here is that the plant contains alkaloids that aren't great for your liver. However, most of the poisonings regarding comfrey are going to involve people abusing extracts from the root-not the greens. The most interesting and robust culinary tradition I can find comes from Kenya, and I'm lucky enough to have relatives with Kenyan heritage I could pester with questions about the dish in question, which is called mukimo. If you look on You Tube there's lots of videos clearly showing comfrey leaves being pureed or cooked into the dish, which is basically potatoes, beans, corn and greens that are boiled and mashed together. Personally, I've used comfrey flowers and buds as garnishes for salads for at least 10 years now, with no issue. The plant is edible raw and cooked, but I only serve it in small amounts and I'm not eating it every day. It also makes great fertilizer for other garden plants by way of making comfrey tea or simply spreading the leaves at the base of other plants and waiting for them to decompose.