A flavorful field guide to foraging | Alexis Nikole Nelson

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Whether it's dandelions blooming in your backyard or purslane sprouting from the sidewalk, forager Alexis Nikole Nelson is on a mission to show how freely growing flora could make its way to your plate. With contagious enthusiasm and a live cooking demo, she explains the benefits of expanding your palate to include "wild" foods that are delicious, nutritious and planet-friendly -- and gives three tips for helping others go from skeptical to confident in their own food adventures. Stay tuned to hear how the honey bee plays an important role in your health as Shoshana sits down with entomologist and educator Dr. Samuel Ramsey.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.7	This is the Ted Health Podcast.
0:09.4	I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:12.4	On today's show, we go on a wild food scavenge with outdoor educator and proud vegan Alexis
0:19.1	Nicole Nelson.
0:20.8	She tells us why those beads growing out of the sidewalk might be healthier than some
0:25.2	vegetables you can get at the grocery store.
0:27.9	She also shares her secrets for getting others to try new foods.
0:32.2	And then I'll speak with entomologist and educator, Dr. Samuel Ramsey, about another
0:37.3	important player in human health, The Honey Bee.
0:47.2	If a vegan falls in the forest, and no one's there to hear them say, I'm vegan!
1:01.4	Are they even really vegan?
1:12.3	I like to preface conversations about my dietary habits with jokes, because brains
1:19.8	love the ha-hans, and because sometimes you say the word vegan, and a people get a little
1:28.4	afraid.
1:31.1	They mind immediately conjures this non-existent super vegan, who's an amalgam of every
1:40.0	annoying thing they've ever heard a vegan say.
1:45.0	And at that point, they're checked out.
1:48.8	Now if you've managed to somehow avoid the zeitgeist for the last 15 or 20 years, one,
1:55.8	tell me how!
2:02.6	Two, I will tell you what vegan means, because I'm sure you're dying to know.
2:07.7	So vegan is both a diet, completely free of animal products, and a person who follows
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