Food: strawberry tops

Self-tutoring about eating strawberries: the tutor reflects….

I have a fourteen and sixteen-year-old; both like strawberries. So, when strawberries are a good deal, we buy them. At any meal, I might be washing and cutting them up to serve as “fruit or veg.”

I seldom eat the strawberries themselves. Rather, I serve the fruit to the kids, while I eat the tops cut off from them – the bit of flesh and leaves. Someone asked me once, why I do so. Why not just eat some strawberries?

I didn’t have a reason; my instincts led me. I’ve never heard not to eat strawberry leaves, so I guessed it would be okay, especially in the small quantities I started eating them. Back when the kids were young, they might only eat one or two strawberries. The small amount of leaf from such prep, I expected to be safe for an adult.

As the kids grew, they ate more strawberries. Many tops would remain after prepping them. Having eaten them for many years, I continued to.

Now I read that in fact, strawberry leaves can offer health benefits. I’m not too surprised.

Source:

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