I’ve never eaten kudzu, but I thought ‘prolific’ was almost understatement as a description of how it grows. Don’t know the nutritional values, but we would never starve to death for lack of it in our neck of the woods.
Roots are starch, leaves are salad greens.
You can cure world hunger with that stuff.
Oh, and goats love it.
Oops, young leaves are salad greens, old leaves are spinach.
“James Dickey says in his poem “Kudzu” -
That you must close your windows
At night to keep it out of the house. “
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/uckudzu.htm