The flowers and young leaves can be eaten, and are often added to salads or are boiled and fried
boil the roots, get extract, add eggs and rose water amd blam the original marshmellow
When boiled first and fried with onions and butter, the roots are said to form a palatable dish, and in times of scarcity consequent upon the failure of the crops, this plant, which grows in great abundance, is collected heavily as a foodstuff
Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea levesque malvae ("As for me, olives, endives, and mallows provide sustenance")