Have you ever eaten swamp cabbage? If you’ve ever eaten hearts of palm, you have. That’s another name for it.
Although they are both the same thing, for the purpose of this diary, when I refer to hearts of palm, I mean the commercially canned ones and when I refer to swamp cabbage I mean those that are harvested in the wild. I’d say the main difference between the two are size. HOP needs to be slender enough to be packed whole in a regular sized can, or a comparably sized jar, whereas swamp cabbage can be huge. However big or small they are when harvested, it is not a sustainable method because it kills the trees.
