Nutrition- Dandelion Leaf

We use dandelion leaf in our Green Chunks as one of the two main greens. The other, alfalfa, we wrote about before in our newsletter.  (You can read it here.) Dandelion is ranked as one of the top four green vegetables by the USDA.  As well as being high in vitamins and minerals, dandelion leaf has many other nutritive and possibly curative qualities and is known to be good for the liver.  So if you have been pulling it up as a weed from your garden all these years, think twice next time you see one out there.  Unless your yard has been sprayed with herbicides or pesticides, you might prefer to pull it up and put it in a salad. For you or your parrots or both!     

To read more about dandelions, here is an article.