Cotton.....
I will give credit where credit is due.....
When looking up Lambs Quarters, I hit 4-5 web sites, and basically they all said the same thing.....the human body does not digest cellulose, and therefore the greatest value of Lambs Quarters, like lettuce, etc., is as "roughage," which aids regularity. So, after 4-5 said the same thing, I left off. Went back this morning and pursued it a bit further, and about 15 websites in, found this....
http://wildblessings.com/plants/lambs-quarter/
Excerpt from article: "You are here: Home / Plants / Lambs Quarter
Lambs Quarter
Lambs Quarter at the dairy farm
Botanical name: Chenopodium album
Common names: fat hen (used for fattening poultry), goosefoot, pigweed, and wild spinach
Plant type: clumping 6-9 foot annual
leaf: diamond shaped, wavy teeth margins, pale green whitish underneath, alternate branching
Early leaves most tender, but can be harvested through till frost, collect seeds in the fall. lambs quarter leaves are best when eaten from a plant less than a foot tall, larger leaves are better cooked. Keep farming it to keep the leaves tender
Grows in back alleys, unmoved lawns, vacant lots
Leaves use as a wild spinach substitute, salads, stir fry, soups, casseroles, grind seeds into dark flour to make gruel or bread
leaves dry well and can be reconstituted - powder to make flour
Dried leaves make a delicious flour, mix with a bit of water to make a tortilla
Nutrition (per half cup)
Lambs quarter seeds
Protein 19.6 grams
Fat 4.2 grams
Carbos 57.7 grams
Fiber 27.1 grams
Calcium 1036 mg
Potassium 1687 mg
Niacin 3800 ug
Iron 64 mg
Lambs quarter Shoots
Protein 3.5 g
Carbos 5.5 g
Calcium 324 mg
Potassium 684 mg
Beta Carotene 3800 ug
Niacin 1000 ug
Iron 1.5 mg
Health Benefits
1. Use all parts as a pout lice for swelling, rheumatism and arthritis
2. Chew raw for toothaches
3. Gelatin capsules filled with Lambsquarter make a potent vitamin
FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL
1. Lambs quarter is the second highest in nutrition of all wild foods. Amaranth is #1
2. The gritty feel is pollen…rinse well
3. Lambs 1/4 seed is excellent bird feed
4. Dye color: bright yellow
A few CAUTIONS
1. Lambs quarter can absorb nitrate from contaminated soil so be careful where you harvest this plant
2. Lambs quarter has a poisonous look-a-like (Nettleleaf goosefoot) but it's rank odor reveals it's identity
3. Lambs quarter is a relative of spinach. Avoid too much raw consumption of plants with heavy oxalic acid content. Cooking will destroy some of the oxalic acid but for salad and smoothies use lemon juice to neutralize the oxalic acid and help prevent kidney stones."
WHY those other sites mentioned none of this, I have no idea.
1. While I'm still not thrilled with your post, I do have to admit I screwed up and didn't pursue the subject far enough. This is the drawback to using Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.....if you hit 4-5 sites and they're all giving you basically the same info, you have (or at least "I" have) a great tendency to then "drop it," and not pursue additional sites.
2. I have been doing web searches for nearly as long as there has been a "web" to search.....and it is VERY rare that you have to go further than 4-5 sites to get a pretty accurate set of data/info. However, apparently "Lambs Quarters" is one of those "rare occasions." I apologize for not pursuing it further....my mistake.....and in the future, if something comes up, and the first 4-5 sites are "counter/neutral" to someone's view, I will keep going, say, to 20 websites, just on the off chance it's another "rarity."
3. I am pushing 71, was RAISED on a farm until 10-11, haven't lived on a farm since, and I never even HEARD of "Lambs Quarters" until I noticed this thread, and thought "Lambs Quarters, well, worth a look." After reading, my FIRST thoughts were (a) selling for $8/lb, this has got to be worth looking into, and (b) Doesn't too much matter WHAT the "nutritional value" is, at $8.00/lb I'll sell people CARDBOARD if they'll buy it!
4. My "employment/work history" doesn't include ANY of the skills an outdoorsman needs for SHTF living on any kind of primitive or semi-primitive scale.....if I had to make a lousy coffee table, it would probably take 3-4 tries to "get it right!" I "buy," not make, and I get plenty of spare parts in case whatever I'm buying breaks down...I'm not a "fixer," but I can replace parts. My 45 years behind a desk, flipping property, doesn't qualify me for doodly squat in terms of "survivalism," except perhaps in locating property suitable for "preppers" who are looking for raw land or out of the way homes/land in rural areas. (Retirement sucks, you know HOW MANY old farms are on the market for a song now...Jesus!)
5. OK, bottom line, you were/are correct in pointing out the shallowness of the "Lambs Quarters links".....so I ended up sticking my foot in my mouth. All I can say is that in 20 years of web searches, I've found it to very rarely require hitting over 4-5 links to get an accurate picture of whatever it is you're looking for, and that gets to be habit forming, and you just hit the 4-5 links and go on to whatever may be next.
6. As for the "rest," like I said, you got a problem with me, think I shouldn't be here, take it to the Mods/Admin......I have no problem with whatever they decide. Their call, and that's their job.
You have a nice day, too hot & muggy for me to work up a sweat!:wave: