People eat walnuts, pecans, and other nuts grown on trees. Why don’t we eat acorns?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: They require some preparation, but many native peoples ate oak acorns. The process includes cracking, peeling, grinding into a meal, leaching out the tannin (bitter tasting substance in oaks) in hot water, and drying if you’re going to do more grinding or not use it immediately. The flour or meal is used for a porridge or in baking.
The bitter tannin doesn’t seem to bother squirrels, bears, or hogs.
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