Does your diet consist of flowers?

I never really thought of how many flowers I eat/drink, but I do use them. I drink echinacea and hibiscus flower tea quite a bit. Besides that, there is chamomile tea and I drink green tea with jasmine in it at times, too. I eat dandelion flowers in season, and, as someone else mentioned, cauliflower is the buds of unopened flower, as is broccoli and artichokes. I've eaten sunflower buds, too, but not regularly.

Tea is one of the good example of flowers in our diet. I do eat flowers like, banana flowers and other vegetables which bears flowers. Banana bud or banana flowers is the most common flower that people eat here in our country. Also pumpkin flowers are audible and a lot more.

Yeah scheng1, our some of our daily diets consist of edible flowers which we are used to eat time either in cooking or making beverage. Chrysanthemum tea is quite common in our living. We get the dried flowers from shops that the flowers mostly are imported from China and prepare our own homemade chrysanthemum tea. Cans and paper boxes of such fragrant flower teas are available in the local market here as well. It's the best iced beverage to quench our thirst during scorchers We also have sirup and tea prepared from our national flower, hibiscus. I think broccoli is another delicious flower of vegetable plant as our diet Happy posting

I heard so much about tea,a friend indeed offer me ates with jasmine scent, I like that so much abut I never tried like that anymore. Tea at home is unflavored. But sometimes I put drops of honey of lemon to make it yummier.

Me too. I drink Chrysantemum tea to reduce the heat in my body. I buy the instant chrysantemum tea. My cousins usually drink the pure chrysantemum tea. What is Eight Treasures tea.? What is it function? For the culture in my country, Javanese people used to drink tea. But not for health. They drink tea with lots of sugar, hot or cold. And now, some factory produce some drinks contains some herbs, for liver, for woman's health, also for slimming.

We also drink tea in our country but it's not extremely popular. Other uses of flower include banana flowers as viand, some flowers as salads.

Apart from the herbal teas, I do occasionally use flowers like nasturtiums and marigold petals in a salad, more for decoration than anything else. If you have a large number of marrow, courgette or squash flowers, these are quite delicious as a canapé or a starter when dipped in batter and deep fried. I have no doubt that the same can be done with other edible flowers. Violets and rose petals, especially, can be 'crystalised' by dipping in egg white and then in sugar before drying. These are often used as cake decorations and violets, especially, have a very delicate scent and flavour (which some cannot detect at all). One flower which many people eat without even realising that it is a flower (though it is really not quite yet a flower because it is still in bud) is cauliflower. It is also the immature flower heads of sprouting broccoli which are eaten. Globe artichokes are also, technically flower buds, though the edible parts are the bases of the sepals and the matrix which is the baseplate on which the florets grow. Cloves are the are the aromatic dried flower buds of the tree Syzygium aromaticum.

Other than tea I don't think there is much else that is in a state close to a flower. I know people have been eating zucchini flowers in fancy restaurants but I have never tried it nor am I sure how to prepare it.

Yes, I drink chamomile tea before bedtime. it has excellent calming effects and I'd get good and restful sleep. The flower of squash is considered a vegetable here in the Philippines. It is rich in vitamins and minerals just like any other vegetable, and it tastes good. I also read that rose petals are being cooked in other countries. Too bad, I can't taste it because roses are expensive here.

That's nice to know. Actually, I haven't tried having any kind of flower in any of the food I've eaten. Although this is not the first time I've heard of having flower on your tea. As for me, I'm not much of a tea person. Here in our country, I don't know if such practices exist, something where people would add some flower on their tea. As far as I know, tea here in our country is served in the most ordinary way.

It's interesting to drink flowers,but honestly there isn't such a culture.But it's great to have so many tastes.I think i would like to have a try.

I drink rose tea sometimes. Not coz it's a part of my diet but just because I like it. It tastes real good too and make me feel good hehe.

No we don't drink flower I also don't think it's in our culture although it might be like that once in the middle ages since many cultures had herb drinks etc. We do have tea made of flowers and herbs or both or kind of mixtures but most people don't drink that. Same with green tea. I think the black tea (all kinds of from everywhere all over the world) are normal over here. Next to it we drink rooibos (redbush) tea as well. But this kind of tea, just like herb teas etc are mostly only tealover drinking (or the health fanatics as we call them) We drink just the tea, milk in it is not normal (we only give it that way to babies) some add some sugar. Although flowers and herbs are healthy I am allergic to many of them too so I try to stay away of these kinds. We don't add flowers to the dishes. We see flowers as something to decorate your house with and give as a present that way as well. But not to eat. Personally I don't like flowers in my house, they should grow outside and bloom there not be cut of and put in a vase. So a bunch of flowers is not something to make me happy with.

yess i eat flower like a gumamela flower is that flower from here in the philippines is it a native flower this flower i know this flower have a antioxydant i drink a tea like a green tea to use for my diet i know this tea came from chinese country to correct your bowel movement in your body twice or trice

In the summer flowers get added to salads, especially things like nasturtiums. In the winter there are not many flowers around but I do have some in herbal remedies - like elderflower. I think the reason we don't eat so many flowers is that they aren't that nutritious compared to the leaves, seeds and roots that we usually have. They do add some nice colour and flavour when we do have them.