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@hperrin@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.

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Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.

@hperrin@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    Hey nobody’s stopping you from gnawing on some cedar shavings my dude.

  • @BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world
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    We can, and do, eat wood. It’s listed as “cellulose” in the ingredients, and it’s in everything. Your ice cream, your bread, probably up in yo closet doin your Mamma right now

    • @suction@lemmy.world
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      Daaayum

    • @hperrin@lemmy.worldOP
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      That’s made from plants, including trees, but that’s not really what I’m talking about.

  • @ascense@lemm.ee
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    This comes to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread

  • @EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure I agree about the smell of wooe, but the cambium of many different tree species is perfectly edible. Have at it, my friend!

  • deadcatbounce
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    Yup. That’s the worst thing about the local authorities banning wood/coal (coal was wood …!) household fires. The absence of the smell.

    Mind you same with BBQ. And there are no bears in these woods!

  • @Ballistic_86@lemmy.world
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    I’m guessing it sort of came from the fact that we cook food with burning wood. Less so now, but burning wood meant cooked food for 200k years.

    I don’t think wood smells like it is edible, but a fire can remind me of food through smell.

  • @Willdrick@lemmy.world
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    That’s what whiskey is for

    • @Muscar@discuss.online
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      And smoking anything, it’s definitely part of food as a taste just not the wood it self as an ingredient.

      • @nomous@lemmy.world
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        Being used to make the fire/smoke that cooks the food is a really good point, wood is definitely food adjacent even if it’s not strictly edible.

  • acannan
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    For the majority of human history, we’ve eaten around wood (around a campfire, a hearth, etc), it makes sense it would become intertwined with our food palette

  • @obre@lemmy.world
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    You can bake sawdust into bread lol https://youtu.be/MTC_ETWa3JA

    • @GingeyBook@lemm.ee
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      Or a Rice Crispy if you’d rather

      https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU?si=mhnNuCnT4FCiUHxe

    • @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      Also if you believe the stories ive heard from pizza chains like Papa Johns and Domino’s, sawdust is regularly added to pizza dough to make it cheaper to produce

  • @MHanak@lemmy.world
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    A beaver wrote this

    • ꧁ꝈօղҽӀվ ѵìҍҽʂ꧂
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      Removed by mod

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        We gotta keep it from being upvoted too far

    • @suction@lemmy.world
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      Huh, always had Beavers down as ThinkPad T-Series users…

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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    0•1 year ago

    U can eat it. Its just not particularly nutritious or paletable.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      I still wonder why if we need more fiber in our diets we don’t just toss wood pulp in everything.

      Apparently supplemented processed fiber gives you liver cancer though.

      Tldr: Inulin bad.

      https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/diets-high-in-processed-fiber-may-increase-risk-of-liver-cancer-in-some-people

      I wonder how depression era sawdust bread would work though.

      • @Akareth@lemmy.world
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        The study that your article references is a mouse study, so the relevance to humans is questionable.

        In addition, fiber is shown to be beneficial to humans primarily when comparing the standard American diet to a high-fiber diet. This is likely because fiber is mostly non-digestable by humans (as we’ve lost the ability to digest fiber more than 2-million years ago unlike our closest living great-ape cousins), and acts as a physical barrier to the absorption of sugars and starches which also helps to lower insulin spikes.

        If you do not eat a high-carb diet (such as a ketogenic diet), then eliminating the undigestable matter (i.e. fiber) from your diet is probably beneficial because you’ll be able to absorb more nutrients and get rid of constipation-related issues.

      • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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        0•1 year ago

        A lot of processed foods do have wood pulp in it. Often labeled celulose to hide that they just putting wood pulp in ur food.

  • @TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    That’s what coffee is for.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    Have you ever made love to a greased up knot in a tree trunk?

    • @Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      Tek-knight has

    • @scutiger@lemmy.world
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      Not yet.

  • xep
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    I’m… not so sure about this. Also we can eat paper and that’s just mashed up wood, right?

    • @hperrin@lemmy.worldOP
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      We can consume it, but we can’t digest it.

      • Otter
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        Also, we should consume it (or other types of dietary fibre)

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614039/

        Dietary fibre is that part of plant material in the diet which is resistant to enzymatic digestion which includes cellulose, noncellulosic polysaccharides such as hemicellulose, pectic substances, gums, mucilages and a non-carbohydrate component lignin. The diets rich in fibre such as cereals, nuts, fruits and vegetables have a positive effect on health since their consumption has been related to decreased incidence of several diseases. Dietary fibre can be used in various functional foods like bakery, drinks, beverages and meat products. Influence of different processing treatments (like extrusion-cooking, canning, grinding, boiling, frying) alters the physico- chemical properties of dietary fibre and improves their functionality. Dietary fibre can be determined by different methods, mainly by: enzymic gravimetric and enzymic—chemical methods. This paper presents the recent developments in the extraction, applications and functions of dietary fibre in different food products.

        Not that we should go around gnawing on wood like beavers, but maybe that’s why some indigestible foods seem like we should be able to eat it

        • @elephantium@lemmy.world
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          0•1 year ago

          See also celery?

          • @scutiger@lemmy.world
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            Celery shouldn’t be eaten.

            • @elephantium@lemmy.world
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              LOL, well-played.

  • @Lexam@lemmy.ca
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    If you’ve eaten shredded cheese from the store, then you’ve eaten wood.

    • @Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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      0•1 year ago

      Eating shredded cheese and wood is certainly a lifestyle

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