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Eating Yacaratiá wood was well known before all this shit but ok (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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[–] 30 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

The wood is soft and fibrous and the taste has been compared to chestnuts.

i would have guessed that "wood" is too strongly defined by all of its indigestible structural shit like lignin to the point that "wood" and "edible" are mutually exclusive, but apparently this one tree just happens to... not use lignin for some reason? pretty neat

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah no cellulose at all basically makes the bark taste like a nutty semi sweet tofu

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    i'm mostly just surprised that it's still considered "wood" at that point instead of some other kind of plant part

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