In former times, the street goosefoot grew in towns and villages along paths, walls and in old castles, but due to modern constructions it finds only little habitat in Germany. Railway lines and wastelands belong to its last refuges, but its natural range is almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere. In North America it is a neophyte.

The black-brown seeds can be used as pseudocereals similar to quinoa, for example boiled as a porridge and grounded to a flour  as addition to baking flour (because the seeds do not contain gluten, no bakery products can be made from goose-foot flour alone). The seeds contain saponins, which must be washed out before further processing. For this purpose, the seeds are placed in plenty of water overnight and then the water is poured off.

• Edible Seeds
• Also edible Leaves
• Fruit type Achene
• Culinary group Pseudocereals
• Taste neutral
• Trivial names Straßen-Gänsefuß, Stadt-Gänsefuß, Dorf-Gänsefuß, Steif-Gänsefuß, Steifer Gänsefuß, City goosefoot
• Size 12 cm
• Taxonomy Amaranthaceae (Amaranth family) Oxybasis urbica, Syn. Chenopodium urbicum
• Origin Europe, Eurasian Steppe (Karte)
• Received by Wissenschaftsgarten Frankfurt (FRG) 2016