Did you know that a weed can be the foundation of a vital life? Ground elder is a true superfood. Learn here how you can harness its power for yourself.
“Weeds” are survivors. To survive under the toughest conditions, they carry concentrated life energy and therefore contain many essential vitamins and trace elements such as zinc, potassium, silica, vitamin K, and vitamin B. These give them their special and tireless strength.
Ground Elder – the underestimated superfood from the garden
There is a “weed” that causes many gardeners headaches because it just won’t go away.
Once it has arrived in your home garden, maybe it makes sense to live with it?
Because this “weed” can also be wonderfully incorporated into your diet.
I’m talking about ground elder. The motto: If I can’t fight it, I’ll eat it up. 😉
Ground elder can be used in soups, pesto, wild herb salads, casseroles, and more.
Ground elder is a true survivor and full of vitality. Thanks to its adaptability to difficult conditions, it contains a variety of valuable ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Especially noteworthy are its high vitamin C content, which even surpasses that of lemons, and its iron content, which is four times higher than in spinach.
Our Plantain-Ground Elder Syrup – a Concentrate of Nature
We added plantain, broadleaf plantain, and wild hops to the ground elder that grows here in Styria.
Then we fermented all four herbs together to enhance their effects and made a syrup from them.
That’s why the syrup has so many wonderful properties, of which I’ll just list a few here:
- mucolytic (loosens mucus)
- anti-inflammatory
- neutralizes uric acid
- relieves joint pain
- promotes wound healing
- helps with rheumatism and lumbago (it was not called “Zipperleinkraut” in folk tradition for nothing)
- antibacterial, antifungal, alkalizing, strengthening, …
In the old European art of healing, ground elder was part of the foundation for a long, vital life!
And now you can bring that home.
We use ground elder syrup to sweeten teas and as a refinement for salads instead of balsamic, as a topping for roasted vegetables or to sweeten smoothies and other drinks.
By the way: Ground elder syrup tastes aromatic with herbs but also sweet and fresh – that’s why children like it too!
