Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
Woody evergreen (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis). Needle leaves are resinous. A little with roast potatoes is food; medicinal megadoses in pregnancy folklore are a different exposure.
GROW → HARVEST → EAT → DRY → POWDER → CAPSULE → GUMMY — forms are not equivalent. Food first.
Identity
Also called: Rosmarinus officinalis
What it is
Woody evergreen (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis). Needle leaves are resinous. A little with roast potatoes is food; medicinal megadoses in pregnancy folklore are a different exposure.
From the existing encyclopedia
Rosemary is a dried botanical traded as cut leaf, flower, seed, or root for tea and seasoning. Traditional and folk literature also mentions decrease hepatic glucose production — we describe food and tea uses here, not medical protocols. Cross-link pantry planning with v1 kits on the store page when this item appears in a bundle. Balances with honey or dates in warm drinks when used as food sweetening. When substituting dried Rosemary for fresh, use about one-third the volume and bloom in fat or hot water before adding acid or dairy.
Edible portions
- leaves
- flowers
Absence of a portion from this list means it is not treated as food here — not that every other part is toxic.
Growing
- Climate. 8–10 in ground; pots elsewhere
- Light. Full sun
- Soil. Sharp drainage; winter wet is the killer
- Planting. Do not overwater. Take cuttings from a flavorful plant.
- Harvest. Year-round tips; do not butcher old wood with no green.
Processing, drying, storage
- Drying. Dries well; needles stay sharp — chop them. See also Make → Drying.
Preparation and culinary uses
- Roast lamb and potatoes
- Infuse oil (food safety: refrigerate herb oils)
Nutrition and compounds
- Plant compounds. camphor, 1,8-cineole. Presence is not a dose, a cure, or a reason to buy a capsule.
AAA interpretation Food first. These associations explain why a plant shows up in a nutrient conversation — they are not a supplement shopping list.
Next steps
Sources
- USDA PLANTS Database — taxonomy and range (verify current entries)
- USDA FoodData Central — nutrient profiles for foods (verify current entries; this page does not invent milligrams)
- State cooperative extension growing guides — verify for your region
- Integrated from the existing aaaLifetime / quantum-biohack encyclopedia corpus (unique text preserved where it was not boilerplate).
Honest incompleteness is preferred to fabricated completeness. If a section is missing, no record for it is attached here — not a claim that the plant lacks that characteristic, and not that it was omitted as a secret.
Internal quality class A. Strong page: distinctive plant facts plus practical growing or kitchen use.