Cattails or Corn ?

[Swampthing]

I read a little survival tip the other day. Apparantly when cattail heads are young ,b4 they develope into brown furry heads ,they are edible.They are compared to corn in the way you have to peel back to expose the inner part.I guess they taste like cucumbers.

[NSOUTFITTER]

Well there now........cannot say I have tried them but hey I would pretty well eat anything if I was lost .. LOL,LOL I am not going to go out and try them anytime soo though . Thanks for the tip though . Who would have thought ?

[Dewey]

Good to know!!! Now I never have to leave the marsh!!

[DEERSLAYER]

You can eat the roots too.

[publiclandhunter]

Ditto on what slayer said. On an episode of Survivorman he eats the bulbous roots of cattails and says they are edible (I do believe he barfs them back up in a short time though...evidently they taste terrible). Would be easier to just kill a critter and have steak tartar.

PLH

[Zap]

I read a little survival tip the other day. Apparantly when cattail heads are young ,b4 they develope into brown furry heads ,they are edible.They are compared to corn in the way you have to peel back to expose the inner part.I guess they taste like cucumbers.

Cattail on the cob.......
Let us know how that works for you.


marty

[PLB]

Good to know!!! Now I never have to leave the marsh!!

[dan]

I have eaten cattail roots... They are awful. They should not be listed as edible.

[Trailcamaddict]

I have eaten cattails several times. Actually they taste just like cucumbers just as others have mentioned. The trick is to get them when they are just starting to grow. You pull the stem right from the ground, peel off the green outer part and eat the white center.

[Dewey]

Don't try eating them in fall/winter or it will be like eating a mouthful of feathers!

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[BassBoysLLP]

Don't try eating them in fall/winter or it will be like eating a mouthful of feathers!

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