Wood is notoriously hard to digest. After wood evolved, it took millions of years before funghi and bacteria evolved the ability to decompose it. And that’s why we have oil now.
Wood is the reason for climate change!
And now these hippies want to plant even more trees.
Who are they to stand in the way of climate change‽
There was a point during that millions of years where there were areas of thousands of feet deep layers of dead trees. It still boggles my mind.
Would you be willing to find a good article explaining this further? This sounds really neat and I’d like to know how scientists figured this out :O
Coal, not oil, but it’s still an interesting fact.
(the oil helps us digest wood)
Maple syrup is tree blood. Kind like tree vampirism.
I don’t think wood smells like food. But I wonder… apparently termites have a bunch of gut bacteria to digest wood. Maybe if you eat raw termites and bark beetles, you can then eat some sawdust. If you continue the process eventually you may be able to eat wood or paper with your own gut biome. Maybe start with a termite, sawdust, and banana smoothie and move up from there. Best of luck.
5/7 with rice. Thank you for the suggestion.
A grading scale like no other
“Tree vampirism”? Naw dude, we boil the tree blood down first. It’s concentrated tree vampirism.
Kinda like centrifuge blood taffy?
Oh, you mean CTV?
Yeah, it stops being healthy because it’s ultra processed.
My dude, it’s pure sugar. It was never healthy.
Also, I’m not sure that boiling something down to thicken it counts as “ultra processed”.
It only gets boiled down to pure sugar. You boil off or break down a lot of the aromatics and volatiles in the original sap to make syrup. It gets processed by boiling to concentrate the sugar and reduce the presence of the rest of what the tree was living on. Maple sap does not become “pure sugar” (maple syrup) until after it gets the good stuff processed out.
There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have “oaky” flavors due to the barrels they’re kept in.
OP confirmed for beaver with dental issues.
It might interest you to know that we do eat wood when we eat that sprinkled parmesan or romano cheese in the plastic containers: It contains wood to prevent the cheese from clumping (and it counts as fiber)
If you consider cellulose to be wood, sure. They don’t put actual wood in there.
What cellulose do they use then?
Cellulose can come from just about any type of plant. Cotton is almost entirely cellulose, for example.
I don’t know what their cellulose comes from, but saying cellulose is trees is like saying milk is cheese.
Thank God I can eat cheese to get my fill of wood for the day.
Mmm, anti caking agents…
I just call it laxative
All shredded cheeses, I believe.
Many shredded cheeses are mixed with corn and/or potato starches rather than cellulose (which is not wood either)
Thanks for the info!
Antifreeze
uhhhhh what
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.
is your pizza made of… wood?
Cinnamon and sumac are two common spices that are made from grinding up tree bark.
You using a different kind of sumac than the rest of us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac#In_food
The bit about powdered sumac (bark?) being a powerful dye for marble is pretty interesting. I wish there was an example photo.
I stand corrected on that one. I assumed it was sumac bark, and you know what they say about assumption. It makes an ass out of u and mption.
Also ginger.
And technically wormwood too, although that’s more you drinking water that is soaked into wood.
Ginger is a root, maybe you’re thinking of something else?
The root of a tree. Made of wood.
No, ginger is not a tree.
I think most would consider most tree roots to be “woody”
It’s not a tree root.
Is it woody?
It is not.
Eh what is a root if not wood that is covered in dirt
So is a potato wood? A carrot?
Ginger is not a tree. It’s a flowering plant.
A potato is not a flowering plant it’s a tuba, such as an onion. Totally different thing entirely to a bit of wood attached to a tree.
Potato plants absolutely have flowers. Have you ever grown one? Be careful with the potato flowers and fruits. They are poisonous nightshade.
Don’t be bringing brass instruments into this…
And potato is a tuber but an onion is not. Both are flowering plants. So is ginger.
Ginger has nothing to do with ‘a bit of wood attached to a tree’ which is exactly my point.
You can. I know a guy who eats a birch log every year. He literally sits on the couch pulling splinters from the log and chews on them while watching tv. He also grinds his egg shells and mixes with oatmeal.
This sounds like a terrible idea in the long-term.
Wood is a renewable resource
Why? It’s basically just fiber.
Is this a thing? Why does he do it?
He believes there’s some health benefits to it
Why wood he do such a thing?
A friend of mine doesn’t peel shrimp tails
🤢
I don’t peel shrimp tails either. I don’t eat shrimp.
Are you sure your friend isn’t just three beavers in a long coat?
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!
That’s what whiskey is for
And smoking anything, it’s definitely part of food as a taste just not the wood it self as an ingredient.
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.
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!
No it doesn’t
Liquid smoke has warning labels on it