Can you eat dried rose buds used for potpourri? I want to make some Rose Lemon Tea!!?

Like my question, Can you eat dried rose buds used for potpourri?


I want to make some tea, but not sure if these potpourri I see in retail stores (eg Wal-Mart) have any poison or chemical bad for human on it.





If not able to eat the retail store potpourri, where can I buy natural rose buds? I live in an apartment and I cannot grow them. :(





Of course, I will not be eating used potpourri, cuz scented oil are added to it. :)





Thanks!!





PS the tea I want to make is on this page. everything in Chinese though. If anyone'd like me to translate the recipe to you, I will. Just let me know. :)





http://www.wretch.cc/blog/mitong%26amp;article...

Can you eat dried rose buds used for potpourri? I want to make some Rose Lemon Tea!!?
go to whole foods or trader joes where they have organic things......dont go to those other stores because those definately have chemicals.......unless it says so everything has some dangerous chemical
Reply:They usually make rose teas out of the rose hibs--the seed pod left over after the bloom falls off..is that what you want? Rose hips? they can be bought in most health food and vitamin shops for the purpose of making tea. I don't think I would use potpourri stuff, god knows what chemicals, oils have been added to make the scent or to preserve the petals.





The cooking diva says:" Anyone wanting to buy roses or other flowers to eat should purchase them directly from an organic farm or from a farmer or gardener who has raised the flowers to use as food. " http://panamagourmet.blogs.com/cookingdi...





Henriette's herbal blog says she can located a local vendor for you, there is a web form on this page to fill out and she's supposed to email you a contact, maybe this will help: http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/?p=...





Here's a web page with 5 rosebud sellers:





http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?Type...
Reply:Sure you can make a wonderful smelling tea from Rose petals, but there's just one problem. The tea won't taste like the rose petals smell! If you want to check out the taste of your tea before you brew it, try putting a couple of rose petals under your tongue for a few minutes..............I thought so, Nasty huh! I imagine the store bought rose tea has flavor enhancers and additional flavors to mask that nasty taste, you might want to consider that route, unless you liked the taste. Don't bust up a potpourri though, they are made for smelling, Not drinking!
Reply:it would have to be an organic health food type place--i use roses to make all kinds of food ,but i have 2 grow them my self- to many people use stemic chemicals on roses for problems -and you have no way of telling, I dont think i would use any rose parts unless i grew them my self and knew what i was eating and feeding others.Roses have lots of problems that people use lots of chemicals on ,better safe than sorry.
Reply:yes, there is the preserving chemicals, then the fragerance chemicals. if you read the packs they specifically say "do not eat". food for thought :)