You will already know Sabia (Amaranthus retroflexus). It comes from America and is very widespread among us. It is also known as “safia” and “sasi”, as well as “almitz” and “elmitz” (albitz and elmitz), the name of many plants. There are also others of the genus Amaranthus, the best known in the Basque Country, the Mediterranean Falcon (Amaranthus blitum).

Sage In America it is known as the vegetable, and as the leaf feeds it. He loves fertile lands, with a lot of N that strengthens the green of the plant. Hence its richness in this mineral. It adapts perfectly to the large amount of fertilizer we use in our orchards and fields. Although in orchards we consider it a “weed”, it is increasingly known in our kitchens. Abundant and frequent intake of your leaves can cause serious problems, especially in the kidneys. It is best to eat new leaves and rolls.

The seed is very good for grinding or eating properly. Some of them are among the trendy superfoods. Before, and also now, a good number of horticulturists would rip it off thinking it was a weed and throw it into the pile of manure. Those who knew him had a food, but not his food, but that of the pigs, eaten of pigs. They like it a lot, but in size.

A weed is bad until we don't find its benefit. Often, our species has known its benefits for a long time, but in time in a distant or distant culture, and for us today and here it is “bad”. Perhaps our grandmother knew him and used him, for example, to raise pigs; or in the cultures we have endured, we know about him, but we despise him. We consider ourselves educated, but we are ignorant. Then it has come to us as a superfood, and those who instead of head feed the body, the pigs, or rather, will eat like pigs.

La Espinaca de Lagos (Argentine Celosía) is a herengue of Sabia. It is known in tropical territories around the world, both in nature and in orchards.

Orchards are mature varieties and in some places are highly valued. In Nigeria, they call him “soko yokoto,” that is, “cumbersome and happy with his husband.” Leaves, new shoots, seeds, you eat it all. It is also medicinal herb and has very striking flowers. If you want to get back in the garden and show yourself spectacular flowers or put something to say in the kitchen, grab this yoke: sage and the spinach of Lagos.