05-17-2012, 08:53 PM
(05-17-2012, 07:37 PM)Pickle Wrote: Everyone on this thread "believes" they know what food is best for them.
I have a pointed question regarding intuition.
How many of you, being dropped off in a foreign land, have the ability to discern what food or drink is safe to ingest? I am talking no tools or weapons or anything, just dropped in a lush forest somewhere.
I do mean foreign, as in every plant and animal is alien and unknown to you.
Meat of any kind is usually safe. IF you take any berries and chew and spin them around in your mouth and spit out and are unaffected in 15-20 minutes you are probably safe, ingest small amounts. Most plant leafs are good to eat if cooked but provide little. The more fragrant the smell the more likely it is to be edible, the more bitter the less likely it is to be edible. Seeds are usually edible but should be ground up first. Inner substance of bark is edible as well if scrapped and washed properly.
IF that which you eat shines off the call for you to eat it, it is safe to eat.