Liquid smoke has warning labels on it
I’m… not so sure about this. Also we can eat paper and that’s just mashed up wood, right?
We can consume it, but we can’t digest it.
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
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See also celery?
Celery shouldn’t be eaten.
LOL, well-played.
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.
This should be an unpopular opinion instead, because almost no one associates the smell with a desire to eat it.
Antifreeze
There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have “oaky” flavors due to the barrels they’re kept in.
uhhhhh what
No it doesn’t
That’s what coffee is for.
Please don’t make this reddit.
Have you ever made love to a greased up knot in a tree trunk?
Not yet.
Tek-knight has
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
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who smells wood and thinks “you know what? I want to slap that pine tree on my pancake”?
You mean like maple syrup?
I’m not a huge fan of pine, but maple smells delicious.
Beavers.
Maybe not a pine tree, but I love birch beer. My parents cut down an old birch tree years ago, and it smelled AWESOME!
Call me weird, but I have never once salivated to the smell of any wood.
weird.