How to Eat Milkweed, and Save the Monarchs ~Common Milkweed is a Tasty Edible plant, and every part is delicious. The young shoots taste like asparagus, and the flower buds are a bit like broccoli. Later even the seed pods are edible. Beyond that, eating milkweed (and knowing it's edible) might actually help preserve monarch butterfly populations....here's how...