Nutrition: Despite the fact that it requires very little care, Kang Kong is a highly nutritious plant with high levels of protein, calcium, iron, potassium, & vitamins A B & C. A valuable addition to the diet.
other transported plants, Europeans took along some
common names and cultural uses. With the later migration
of people from Asian countries to other parts of the world,
the food was imported into new areas. Doubt persists as
to where the species was domesticated. Data from uses
as food, regions of cultivation, medicinal use, phylogenetic
studies, common names, and pathogens suggest that
water spinach was first cultivated in southeastern Asia.
The plants may have been domesticated in China and India,
but the data are equivocal. The vegetable sometimes
escapes from cultivation to become an ecologically invasive
weed