SOWING THE SEEDS OF HOPE - Donald D Schroeder - April 1983

Donald D Schroeder

A bold and real step to teach the hungry world to produce its own food! Maybe you haven't heard about the winged bean. You should have! "It's a veritable backyard supermarket," exults a staff director of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. From top to bottom, it is almost all edible. We know. Some Plain Truth staff members have enjoyed eating winged beans while assisting in expanding agricultural development in the Third World. The pods make a succulent green vegetable that can be eaten almost every possible way. The leaves taste like spinach , the shoots are like asparagus and one can eat the flowers and tubers too. The seeds of the winged bean-called that because of the four wing like flanges on its pod- can be steamed or boiled. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library