Fennel

A truly wonderful medicinal plant and culinary herb, it’s dead easy to grow (just grow in a pot away from your other veggies and herbs!) Here are some good fennel facts:

🥗 The whole plant is edible (stalk,seeds,bulb)
🤸‍♂️ It has so many nutritious elements such as decent amounts of vitamin C, manganese and potassium
🦠It is also a wonderful prebiotic (=feeds gut bacteria) which as today is #worldmicrobiomeday is a good vegetable to talk about!
🌱It contains many powerful plant compounds called polyphenols, which are wonderful antioxidants repairing damage in your body and providing some potent protection.
🥔The seeds are often used to aid digestion and relieve bloating and constipation, and small quantities are also low FODMAP so great for IBS.
🤱🏻 Did you know the plant is also a galactogenic - meaning it can help stimulate the production of breastmilk in new mothers. Fennel tea is a great way of stimulating breast milk production.
🥗The fennel bulb is lovely raw and sliced thinly in salads where it brings a wicked liquorice pop.
😋But for a softer flavour, try roasted fennel, it is off the hook good.
👆This is a quick and easy favourite summer dinner of mine - olive oil roasted fennel, potatoes with cherry tomatoes, olives and capers.

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