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Any wood is edible if you puverize it...
Wait till they learn about Kraft Parmesan “cheese”. We call it sawdust at dinner.
Cellulose (a filler) is sawdust and found in the ingredients of the above item.
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I dar you to eat pulverized Hevea brasiliensis.
And snortable!
Or bamboo
Instructions unclear domesticated the Wild Jungle Cock.
But then it's Domesticated City Cock!
That's grass
Grass is trees.
Heart of palm as well
The fruit of this tree are edible raw or cooked. Although if eaten raw, the skin must be scored for some time in order to release a copious latex.
The wood of the yacaratiá tree is served as a delicacy in Argentinian restaurants. The wood is soaked in honey or syrup and is also available in chocolate bonbons or in flavored jams with sawdust. The wood is soft and fibrous and the taste has been compared to chestnuts.
Reminds me of that YouTuber that keeps turning wood into ice cream.
NileRed, I assume?
Isn't that another? I remember a Youtuber who made living rat neurons play DOOM. He also made meat leaves, btw. And socks from milk.
That's the Thought Emporium
The next paragraph adds the explanation, why its wood is edible:
Although most wood is indigestible to humans due to the high lignin content, the yacaratiá tree is only around 10% cellulose while the rest is mostly water with very little lignin content. Unlike most plants, cells of this tree contain large spaces within their walls which store water.
It is in the Caricaceae (Papaya family) and apparently a pioneer species just like papaya trees. No wonder it is mostly water and hardly any lignin!
Lignan deez nuts!
Sorry
Not a chance they can make a restaurant like this in Argentina. They are one of the most reluctant people to try different foods.
Also I'm double sceptical since the same article says it grows in tropical forests in Nicaragua etc, and Argentina has a single smallish area that could be called tropical forest, and that would be a stretch.
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Persimmons are like 40% lignin by weight. They are the largest cause of phytobezoars.
Or the "How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?" video where they loosely tested how many percent of a rice crispy could be replaced by sawdust.
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Related: videos about how much sawdust you can put into rice Krispies before it's noticeable.
Spoiler: it's like 30% by volume. Pretty wild.
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I used to eat the shells on sun flower seeds. That's basically wood and it was indeed edible.
I still eat the shells on sunflower seeds. I would just buy them de-shelled if I didn't want to eat them.
I mean all wood is edible for the most part. It’s also in a lot food!
Cellulose! It’s used to keep your shredded cheese from sticking together.
Just chewing on a twig of oak or fir isn’t gonna kill you.
Edible, Non-Toxic, and Food form a Venn diagram.
Bamboo would like a word
Fake wood. FAKE
Unamerican Fake wood, only the democrats could like it. An Oak tree came to me, big oak, strong oak, tears rolling down its eyes thanking me for finally ending the madness of the fake oak
Bamboo is a grass.
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I watched a video from a guy who just goes into the forest to find ways to eat the trees. He really passionate about it.
You found a termite
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Found this Spanish language article about it. Sounds like a single company has developed the process to make it edible in 1999.
https://www.7canibales.com/despensa/yacaratia-madera-comestible/
I meant to register 7cannibals.com
“7 cannibals to be renamed to 6 cannibals after recent tragedy. When asked for comment the cannibals declined only stating that a per his wishes it will be a closed casket”
Trichonephila edulis roasting on an open fire 🎵
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Anything that can be eaten without causing harm is edible. The question is if it's also digestible.
Packed with fiber!
Ice cream wood guy intensifies
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