Oatstraw and Organoleptics: Learning to Read Herbs With Your Senses

Podcast: Herbs with Rosalee · Rosalee de la Forêt

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

How do we actually know what’s in our herbs? Herbs rarely come with nutritional labels, and how a plant is grown, harvested, and stored can dramatically change what ultimately ends up in your cup. There are two ways we can learn more about what our herbs contain. We can turn to tested data, including resources like Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical Database, but we also have another incredibly useful tool available to us wherever we go: our own senses. In this episode, I’m using oatstraw as an example to explore organoleptics, the practi...