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fish dish that is invariably garnished with Perilla leaves, and some tempuras. Perilla
leaves are also used for pickling and canning a variety of Japanese vegetables. In the
USA Perilla plants are used widely by Asian immigrants, who introduced the herb to
that country.
In spite of the fact that it is a wonderful culinary herb – contributing flavour and
colour to a variety of dishes, and its seeds have perhaps the highest concentration of
unsaturated fatty acids of class omega 3, and it has varied uses as a herbal medicine
for the treatment of cancer, it has not received due attention in other parts of the
world and its use is still mainly restricted to South East Asian countries. In view of
its great medicinal value at least, it needs to be promoted and its use popularized.
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