Fresh Mulberry Leaves!!!
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Here's a little business idea for those of who with unlimited access to mass amounts of fresh leaves/trees. You could probably actually make some money with this if it does infact end up working.
Go grab a bunch of leaves, stick them into one of these http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/ , you'd need to do some testing to figure out appropriate timing and temps.
Once dehydrated and you are left with dry crispy brittle leaves, either blend, food process, or coffee grind the hell out of them into a fine powder. Scale out pounds and half pounds of the powder (that doesn't sound too right) and put them in containers or baggies and store them in the freezer or a cool dry place. Maybe invest a bit of money and throw a fancy/catchy label on there that says something like "All Natural Silkworm Chow" or "Organic, additive & preservative free, non-made in china (of wherever it's originally from) silkworm food, Ingredients: 100% Mulberry leaves." you know, make it look nice. On top of that, sell it cheaper than the commercial stuff. I am willing to bet people would buy it.
Now that I think of it you probably wouldn't even need to store it in the freezer because those machines are pretty much made to mimic the long used method of food preservation known as sun drying. People make fresh jerkey and dry chewy fruit chips in those things and apparently they keep indefinately after that, as long as you store them in something airtight. So spoilage of the ground powder might not be as big of a concern.
Anyway it's just something that popped into my mind while reading through the thread, but I say it's worth a try if anyone has a dehydrator at home. If anyone tries this, let us know how and if it works.
Go grab a bunch of leaves, stick them into one of these http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/ , you'd need to do some testing to figure out appropriate timing and temps.
Once dehydrated and you are left with dry crispy brittle leaves, either blend, food process, or coffee grind the hell out of them into a fine powder. Scale out pounds and half pounds of the powder (that doesn't sound too right) and put them in containers or baggies and store them in the freezer or a cool dry place. Maybe invest a bit of money and throw a fancy/catchy label on there that says something like "All Natural Silkworm Chow" or "Organic, additive & preservative free, non-made in china (of wherever it's originally from) silkworm food, Ingredients: 100% Mulberry leaves." you know, make it look nice. On top of that, sell it cheaper than the commercial stuff. I am willing to bet people would buy it.
Now that I think of it you probably wouldn't even need to store it in the freezer because those machines are pretty much made to mimic the long used method of food preservation known as sun drying. People make fresh jerkey and dry chewy fruit chips in those things and apparently they keep indefinately after that, as long as you store them in something airtight. So spoilage of the ground powder might not be as big of a concern.
Anyway it's just something that popped into my mind while reading through the thread, but I say it's worth a try if anyone has a dehydrator at home. If anyone tries this, let us know how and if it works.
ColorCham427
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what does mulberry smell like? lol
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