Talk:Watercress

message: I believe the image displayed on this page is actually of land cress Barbarea verna(http://www.alabamaplants.com/Yellowalt/Barbarea_verna_page.html) not Nasturtium officinale.    Thanks also to anyone who edited my references on this page as I am a new contributor.
Lifeiloveyou (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Image

message: If there are no objections I'd like to change the "Food Value" title to something more formal such as "Nutritional Value". Also, I found this link 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17284750&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum  
that I'd like to mention under the aforementioned heading. If someone else wants to do it though, I have no problems with it.24.83.178.11 08:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Food Value Title

message: The photograph on this page is loading very slowly.  Presumably it's not been adjusted for web use.  Is there a better photograph of a more suitable size which can be used?  The one included could be linked to instead. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cosmopolitancats 
: I'm all for signed comments but if this $%^^&* bot would have the good grace to at least allow people 10 seconds to realise they haven't signed a post then maybe the number of these signature bot entries could be reduced! Cosmopolitancats 09:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: I propose changing the sentence regarding watercress' cytochrome P450 inhibition (in the context of health benefits) to something more neutral. One could argue that blocking this enzyme -- and the body's ability to metabolize drugs -- is not a health benefit. Re-wording this statement to point out that watercress has interaction with CYP enzymes and drug metabolism could help prevent the misinterpretation that achieving these effects is a health goal. 50.134.143.38 (talk) 03:19, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health benefits and cancer defense 

message: From "Watercress" page, Wiki asked for help: "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: It is found in other continents apart from Europe and Asia.. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (July 2011)"     
OK the easy answer is: Though Native to Asia and Europe, Watercress is a valued human food crop, also growing in North America and (and anywhere else colonized by Europeans or Asians = most of the globe/ where it can grow... like all food crops, it's doubtless escaped cultivation and naturalized. It's growing in mass profusion in the drainage of the artesian Sacred Springs at Kuruvungna, a Tongva (native tribe later called Gabrielino) Village dating back to ~400BC, now University High School Campus on Los Angeles' west side... somebody could have planted it there in modern times- there was a horticulture program at Uni Hi- except...
the complication is: Watercress (there now), & Chia (Savia columbariae, a prized native seed available form health food stores, apparently extirpated from the site now) were reportedly given Spain's Portola expedition when they camped in Kuruvungna back in 1769! How did the watercress get established ahead of them if this was the 1st of 2 Spanish land expeditions in the area?- prob. the 1st documented European land visitors through this area (with embedded Catholic priests that returned to set up the California mission system)... 
Could the Portola's "watercress" be something else? Like native Mustards (Thelypodium spp.) or Bittercresses (Cardamine spp.) shown on the same page in A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers (pub. 1976 long before the taxo-names went where they are today); a book worth keeping because of really good b&w plant drawings. It lists "White Watercress... Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum" as "Alien" (= non-native). Or is there a native CA watercress not in this book? I think I'll have to go back to Kuruvungna Springs with the book to recheck the species drawings... --BIG PLANT-IN (talk) 01:24, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help Cleanup 

message: I'm trying to confirm that Nasturtium microphyllum is commonly cultivated, and am having a heck of a time finding anything reliable. I suspect that it may be occasionally gathered in the wild and consumed, but am skeptical that it is worth keeping more than a passing mention of this species in this article.  The best info I've found is here , but on consulting the references provided, most are just talking about N. officinale.  One source does mention that a hybrid between the two was cultivated prior to WWII. As the article currently discusses two species, the taxobox isn't really appropriate. I'd like to remove most mentions of N. microphylla and change the taxbox to focus on N. officinale. If a source can be found for cultivation of N. microphylla, I'd remove the taxoboxPlantdrew (talk) 22:08, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As another editor added N. officinale to the taxobox, I'm going to go ahead and remove N. microphyllum from the article.Plantdrew (talk) 20:23, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  N. microphyllum 

message: In the Uses section there is a claim that watercress was “was eaten by early Native Americans.” This seems doubtful to me if it is also a plant native to Europe and Asia. (I have zero expertise in this area, so perhaps I’m missing something.)
I do not have access to the source cited for the claim about use by early native Americans, but it is possible that the source got the common name wrong. I note that the author might be a Hungarian speaker and that the common name for watercress in Hungarian may not correspond well to the English term.
Thus, it might be useful to take another look at the sourceS to make sure that the cited claims about the native distribution and that usage are referring to the same plant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JPGoldberg (talk • contribs) 18:05, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eurasian plant “eaten by early Native Americans”  

message: The UK has registered Watercress (as a product as it is traditionally produced in flowing water) as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG). That's somehow remarkable, as it is the first post-Brexit TSG that has been registered. Would it be suitable to mention it here (database entry is here)? For background: other TSG's from the UK, see :Category:Traditional Speciality Guaranteed products from the United Kingdom, EU TSG-law is available at List of United Kingdom food and drink products with protected status. L.tak (talk) 21:31, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, definitely include information about "watercress as it is traditionally produced in the UK in flowing water" being a TSG product. But the article is about the species Nasturtium officinale, which is found all over Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. So the article doesn't belong in the TSG category. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:08, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  TSG 

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