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.
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
You can bake sawdust into bread lol https://youtu.be/MTC_ETWa3JA
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
Or a Rice Crispy if you’d rather
U can eat it. Its just not particularly nutritious or paletable.
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.
I wonder how depression era sawdust bread would work though.
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.
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.
If you’ve eaten shredded cheese from the store, then you’ve eaten wood.
Eating shredded cheese and wood is certainly a lifestyle
It what? Who thinks wood smells edible?
We burn different kinds of wood under our food to make them taste like that wood. Mesquite, apple, hickory, all come to mind. Wood smells really good.
My friend Winona for one
The big brown beaver?
Maple smells like sugar when cut. Maple syrup used to be made of the sap.
it still is?
Only the expensive luxury stuff. The kind sold in tourist traps. Most maple syrup sold in stores is flavored corn syrup, which keeps the price down.
I think at that point it’s called “corn syrup” or just “syrup”. Maple syrup is still made from maple.
At least in the US, most “maple syrup” is literally maple flavored corn syrup or sometimes a blend but is just called Maple Syrup on the front of the bottle. Sometimes it’s called “pancake syrup” for legal reasons
No idea why you’ve got any downvotes.
This is very true. You have to search for actual maple syrup in the US.
he’s getting downvoted cause what he said isn’t true.
If it says Maple Syrup, it is. From wikipedia: In the United States, a syrup must be made almost entirely from maple sap to be labelled as “maple”, though states such as Vermont and New York have more restrictive definitions.
your guy is calling corn syrup stuff maple syrup when all you gotta do is look at the dang label
You have to search for the word 'maple". If it just says Syrup, it’s made from corn syrup. This is true everywhere.
I literally have never had a hard time finding real maple syrup unless I’m in a gas station or something.
Maybe it’s because I’m in the Midwest and sugar maple is absolutely everywhere, but it’s very, very easy to find real maple. Yes it’s more expensive, and absolutely yes it tastes far better.
Maple syrup to “pancake syrup” is like real butter to hydrogenated palm oil. My mother uses the Blue Bonnet margarine, and I used to use it growing up. As an adult I’ve only used real stick butter and god, going back home sometimes for dinner can really suck. Margarine is so chemical-tasting, how the hell do people butter their toast with it?
The downvotes are because he’s legally incorrect
Maple sirup is the liquid food derived by concentration and heat treatment of the sap of the maple tree (Acer ) or by solution in water of maple sugar (mapel concrete) made from such sap. It contains not less than 66 percent by weight of soluble solids derived solely from such sap.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=168.140
Pretty sure the fake stuff has to call themselves maple-flavored syrup, pancake syrup, or just syrup, and only the real stuff is called “maple syrup”
I think this might be a Kleenix vs. tissues type thing for some people. All syrup gets called “maple syrup” regardless of provenance? Then “real maple syrup” vs. “the fake stuff” makes a bit more sense.
Damn, now I want pancakes…
Well, we’ve got strobbary syrup too
Perfect for your ice cweam sundaes!
Hmm. I just went to Target’s website and searched “maple syrup” – even though they have a notoriously bad search, the first row of products were actual maple syrup. The second row had a mix between “pancake syrup” and actual “maple syrup”
OTOH, searching “pancake syrup” was the opposite – 5 corn syrups before any actual maple syrups.
“Maple syrup” is a legally protected name, the same way “butter”, “ice cream”, and “chocolate” are. There are legal requirements for their contents in order for you to call it that on the label. That’s why you see descriptions like “chocolatey” or “buttery” on cheaper products.
In which country?
I’m not sure for most countries, but I know both the US and Canada protect the terms.
In my experience unless you’re in Vermont that is quite true but yeah in Vermont just about everyone makes their own maple syrup if I recall correctly we I believe banned corn syrup maple syrup because everyone here takes maple syrup very seriously
It still is, but it used to, too.
RIP Mitch
He died doing what he loved. Drugs.
We should all be so lucky
He used to be alive. He still … oh never mind.
Someday he’ll be dead. He’s dead now, but someday too
He is in my heart!
who smells wood and thinks “you know what? I want to slap that pine tree on my pancake”?
Maybe not a pine tree, but I love birch beer. My parents cut down an old birch tree years ago, and it smelled AWESOME!
Beavers.
You mean like maple syrup?
I’m not a huge fan of pine, but maple smells delicious.
Skill issue.
This should be an unpopular opinion instead, because almost no one associates the smell with a desire to eat it.
There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have “oaky” flavors due to the barrels they’re kept in.
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.
(the oil helps us digest wood)
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.
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!
This comes to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread
All the 10s in my neighborhood love to gobble on my wood, though?
Please don’t make this reddit.
