Introduction

Do you pick the fruit you eat from trees? In this programme, we’ll be hearing about a new foraging project taking place across the UK, and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

This week's question

2019 was a good year for the group, Wild Food UK, with the launch of their foraging pocket guide, a handbook aimed at helping foragers find and identify safe wild food to eat. So, according to the group’s website, what is the most popular food foraged in the UK?

a)    seaweed

b)    berries

c)    mushrooms

Listen to the programme to find out the answer. 

Vocabulary

foraging
searching the countryside for edible wild plants, fruit, and fungi to eat

microbiome
tiny organisms including bacteria and fungi which live in the human digestive system, break down food for energy and strengthen immune defences

buy into (an idea)
completely believe in an idea

nettles
nutritious edible plant with leaves covered in hairs that sting when touched

superfood
food containing many vitamins and nutrients considered very good for human health

flat
Without energy, emotion or excitement

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