Eating Black Nightshade Berries and Greens (Solanum nigrum and friends)

https://foragerchef.com/black-nightsh...

Sam Thayer's essay:
https://www.foragersharvest.com/uploa...

Casual video going over a few key points on this plant.

Timestamps:
00:40 Harvesting
01:05 Identification + look alike infographics
02:22 Cooking steamed nightshade greens
02:45 Casual DTC discussion and eating
04:40 Nastergal Konfyt / nightshade jam

Background
Black nightshade is having a moment and a number of my friends have been talking about the plant over the last few years. It's comical how much misinformation there is on the edibility of this plant considering the vast amount of ethnobotanical documentation of its consumption around the world.

Black nightshade plants are grown all around the world. Guatemala, China, India, Camaroon, South Africa, Kenya, and many more places have traditions of cooking the greens and or the fruit.

Most of the traditional recipes for the plant call for the greens and they're excellent. Similar to mild-tasting tomato greens that I could eat by the pound.

The fruit (also cultivated under the name garden huckleberry) has a deep purple juice and can be used in any recipe calling for blueberries or huckleberries. Such a cool plant!

A lot more info and background in the post on my website linked above.