Mineral Properties and Dietary Value of Raw and Processed Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica L.)

Table 1

Edible portion (leaf) yield as a percentage of total biomass in stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.) harvested from field plots in the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012. Actively growing shoots (20 ± 2 cm) were harvested and processed by de-stemming.

Season	Shoot wt. (g)	Stem wt. (g)	Leaf wt. (g)	Loss (%)
Fall 2011	203 ± 1.73^a	46 ± 3.5	157 ± 4.69	23 ± 1.8
Spring 2012	199 ± 5.5	55 ± 7.9	144 ± 10.3	28 ± 4.2

aMean (𝑛=3) ± standard deviation.