Ashitaba has incredible yellow sap which contains highly medicinal chalcones which have very potent anti-oxidant properties. It is known as a longevity herb and was fed to samurai warriors in days gone by. It can be used both as a medicinal plant and for cooking or making tea. It can be added to soups at the last stage of cooking for a celery like flavour. Its other name is ‘tomorrow’s leaf’, in folklore, you can cut a leaf in the evening and it will have grown a new one by the morning. It is one of many Japanese ‘Sansai’ mountain vegetables. We are trying to produce seed from our plants so we can offer them as seed is so difficult to source in the UK.
Ashitaba Angelica keiskei
