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Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn't have any nutritional value for humans.
That's not true, 70% of all human crops are grasses. "Grass" is much more than just the typical American lawn.
Various grasses can be used as spices or herbs, like lemongrass, and the "warigal greens" mentioned are a type of spinach.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don't call any produce "grass", other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say "grass" when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn't really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can't break it down enough.
I mean, it's maybe cultural to a degree, it's an Australian article and I'm American, but like, it's still grass. "Actual" isn't a scientific or technical term.
And for all we know, she was picking lemongrass in addition to the greens.