can acorns from oak trees be tasty for humans to eat?

Answer 1

They are bitter. The U.S. Army survival manual suggests that you soak them in water several times to leach out the compound that makes them taste bad.

I read somewhere that people used to make bread from acorn meal, so it is possible.

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Cooking With Acorns
ACORNS: A Major North American Indian Food

California Indians did not have to be farmers, and for the most part were hunters and gatherers. There was a ready supply of deer, fish, rabbits, fowl, native plants for vegetables, native fruits, and even seaweed. Even so, acorns are said to have been the main food of as many as 3/4 of our native Californians. Acorns were everywhere, are easy to gather and store fairly well ... as long as your storage places are squirrel tight. Some groups buried baskets of nuts until they were needed. Some claim that white acorns were the most preferred because they were sweet and often eaten without leaching...

Answer 2

The acorns from some species of oak can be eaten without
special treatment. Most species contain large amounts of
tannin that make them bitter, but this can be leached out with
water. Native Americans used them extensively as food. I
have eaten a few of the ones that do not require treatment, but I was told they were not very good that year because it had been too dry. These were slightly bitter.

Answer 3

I remember tasting acorns as kid.
I don't recall "tasty".......

INTRODUCTION

Acorns have been used as food by Homo sapiens for thousands of years virtually everywhere oaks are found. The worldwide destruction of the acorn resource by mismanagement may well have led to the development of annual plant based agriculture and to civilization as we know it today (Bohrer, 1972; Bainbridge, 1985b). In Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Mid-East, and North America, acorns were once a staple food, (Hedrick, 1919; Loudon, 1844; Brandis, 1972; Lefvebre, 1900; and Bishop, 1891). The Ch'i Min Yao Shu, a Chinese agricultural text from the sixth century recommends Quercus mongolica as a nut tree (Shen Han, 1982). In Spain and Italy acorns provided 20 percent of the diet of many people just before the turn of the Century (Memmo, 1894).

Acorns were perhaps nowhere more important than in California. For many of the native Californians acorns made up half of the diet (Heizer and Elsasser, 1980) and the annual harvest probably exceeded the current California sweet corn harvest, of 60,000 tons. Acorn foods remain on the market not only in Korea, China, and North Africa, but in most major American cities, at Korean food stores (Wolfert, 1973; Bainbridge, 1985a).
http://www.ecocomposite.org/native/acorns.htm

Kaffee-ersatz-ersatz was made of roasted acorns and beechnuts, with just enough roasted barley to build up a coffee flavor. It was said to be better than the first substitute but was also more expensive. Unfortunately, there weren?t enough acorns and beechnuts, much of which was being fed to pigs. Before long the excellent acorn-beechnut coffee disappeared to be replaced by a third substitute whose original ingredients were carrots and yellow turnips. A substitute for tea was not difficult. The bloom of the linden tree mixed with beech buds and a few tips of pine made an excellent "oolong." A cocoa substitute came from coal-tar and chemistry along with roasted peas and oats.
http://www.reenactor.net/ww1/morsels/fsc/home_front.html

Answer 4

I don't compare human beings to trees, but yes, I do consider a fetus to be a human being. Has a fetus ever become anything other than a human being? Fetus is a Scientific term while unborn child is a layman's term. Using the term fetus does not make the child any less human.

Answer 5

well if you get them off the ground then i think they are not tasty but you cna make thme tasty. i was reading a survival guide that said to boild said acorns in water then discard water and if you had seasonings (idk) then add into acorns. I have tryed such a thing with a MRE (meal ready to eat) army rations taht taste quite good for 5 bucks i boiled the acorns smashed them up and added them to my choco drink mix tasted alright but i wouldnt do it i herd they can make u sick

Answer 6

Well there is only one way to find out...and frankly I wouldn't suggest trying that. I had the misfortune of indulging in one...yuck.

Answer 7

some people like em but deer love em

Answer 8

they are not poisonuse ,but because of the tanin they contain they taste bitter.

Answer 9

apparently they are poisonous but i have heard of them being dried and ground into a coffee type drink