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xep ,

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

hperrin OP ,

We can consume it, but we can’t digest it.

otter ,

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

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 ,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

See also celery?

scutiger ,

Celery shouldn’t be eaten.

elephantium ,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

LOL, well-played.

TheBananaKing ,

That’s what coffee is for.

muntedcrocodile ,
@muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee avatar

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

blanketswithsmallpox ,

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.

medicalnewstoday.com/…/diets-high-in-processed-fi…

I wonder how depression era sawdust bread would work though.

Akareth ,

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 ,
@muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee avatar

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.

MHanak ,
levi ,

😆😆… This is so creative…

intensely_human ,

We gotta keep it from being upvoted too far

MHanak ,

To be fair like every good joke i stole this one

suction ,

Huh, always had Beavers down as ThinkPad T-Series users…

TimewornTraveler ,

don’t beavers eat wood

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

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

Zahille7 ,

Tek-knight has

scutiger ,

Not yet.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Skill issue.

KISSmyOS ,
systemglitch ,

This should be an unpopular opinion instead, because almost no one associates the smell with a desire to eat it.

ascense ,
abbadon420 ,

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.

AnyOldName3 ,
@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world avatar

Coal, not oil, but it’s still an interesting fact.

magikmw ,

Wood is the reason for climate change!

intensely_human ,

And now these hippies want to plant even more trees.

XTL ,

Who are they to stand in the way of climate change‽

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Amanduh ,

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

intensely_human ,

(the oil helps us digest wood)

Lexam ,

If you’ve eaten shredded cheese from the store, then you’ve eaten wood.

Aurenkin ,

Eating shredded cheese and wood is certainly a lifestyle

rozodru ,

who smells wood and thinks “you know what? I want to slap that pine tree on my pancake”?

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Beavers.

NABDad ,

Maybe not a pine tree, but I love birch beer. My parents cut down an old birch tree years ago, and it smelled AWESOME!

hperrin OP ,

I’m not a huge fan of pine, but maple smells delicious.

too_high_for_this ,

You mean like maple syrup?

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

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)

Cosmonaut_Collin ,
@Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world avatar

Thank God I can eat cheese to get my fill of wood for the day.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Mmm, anti caking agents...

intensely_human ,

I just call it laxative

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

All shredded cheeses, I believe.

scutiger ,

Many shredded cheeses are mixed with corn and/or potato starches rather than cellulose (which is not wood either)

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Thanks for the info!

scutiger ,

If you consider cellulose to be wood, sure. They don’t put actual wood in there.

XTL ,

What cellulose do they use then?

scutiger ,

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.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar
GraniteM ,

There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have “oaky” flavors due to the barrels they’re kept in.

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