And that’s not good eats.But ptaquiloside has three properties that are of interest to us:Virtually all the data on the subject link most human health problems associated with bracken fern to exposure to contaminated milk from animals eating bracken, contaminated groundwater near bracken stands, and, in some cases, long-term exposure to bracken spores; so if your yard is covered in bracken fern, you might want to dig most of it up.What all this means is that a very normal cooking process for fiddleheads — blanching in salty water, then shocking in ice water, then sauteeing — renders the fiddlehead close to harmless.Note that I say “close to harmless.” Even though most of the research out there suggests that normal human methods of eating bracken, which, incidentally, has been eaten by cultures across the globe since prehistory, denature or render harmless what ptaquiloside exists in a bracken fiddlehead, there is one nagging piece of data out there: There is an apparent link between chronic consumption of bracken and an increased level of throat and gastric cancers in the populations of Korea, Japan and parts of China. See below Description. Welcome to Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, the internet's largest source of recipes and know-how for wild foods.

Some in New Zealand were even found with none of the stuff at all. Thanks again!Hello, I enjoyed reading your article.

Our Korean foraging leader collects bracken fern and serves bibimbop ever time she does a foraging class. I am up to my ears in Chickweed, Miner’s lettuce and stinging nettle right now, but my fiddleheads are not to be found.
We would eat them most of the early spring and dry the rest for the year. This just answered a bunch of questions that have cropped up for me over the years of eating Korean food and foraging…I’m a Japanese.

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years reading scientific papers with names like “Induction of Tumors in ACI Rats Given a Diet Containing Ptaquiloside, a Bracken Carcinogen.”Breezy reading, this. Second, eating bracken is akin to drinking alcohol: Done responsibly, it is enjoyable and perfectly safe.

I had eating bracken in the past and heard it was highly toxic. Thanks!Whimzerd: Local native groups ate the rhizomes of sword fern, not the fiddleheads. Here you answered my question re toxicity. Bracken is so controversial you will see them writing statements ranging from “eat it as much as you want, it’s fine,” to “never, ever, ever eat bracken, raw or cooked.”And like most black-and-white statements, both are wrong.After a pretty exhaustive — and exhausting — survey of the literature, it seems pretty clear that a typical forager’s diet of bracken fiddleheads, blanched and sauteed with lots of butter (or whatever) is perfectly safe. Discard the water. I updated this article last year; it was originally written in 2009.

Great article, thanks!Well, I’m trying bracken fiddleheads for lunch today, don’t have any truffle butter so going to use garlic butter, I’ve spent over $10,000 over the last 30 years trying to get rid of bracken fern on my farm as it kills my cows if they eat to much of it, so I’m delighted to find that I can actually eat the stuff, thank you for all your information on the bracken fern, best I’ve found so far.Brenda: Where are you?
Then cook as you like. Do not eat them once their fronds unfurl.Hey there.

Follow me on This was great! According to my reading of the research, the body apparently can process out only so much of the stuff, and constant eating of bracken puts too much in the system, and I know what you are saying. Etymology. Today I picked a handful and was looking for a way to process and there you were. Once you do this, it is best to just simply cook these pretty things and enjoy their flavor, which is a combination of asparagus, almonds and kale. I think it is quite possible that my neighbor has an enormous red-haired looking fiddlehead that I cannot identify but I doubt he would appreciate me hacking it off and cooking it up I love your site : )Marianne: No, not to my knowledge. Thanks for doing the deep digging for us.


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