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Resist cultivation or have some other undesirable properties. Often low yield, short harvest, low yield, difficult picking or transporting.

A favorite example of mine: oak’s acorns are sometimes edible. Roughly one in ten oaks produce edible acorns. They are indistinguishable from inedible ones unless you try them out - but inedible ones are fairly poisonous. The gene for edible acorns is recessive and it takes at least a decade before you know if a newly planted oak produces edible acorns or not, with a 10% probability of the former. It is just practically impossible to select for this criterion. Thus, we don’t eat acorns.

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danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Often low yield, short harvest, low yield, difficult picking or transporting.

And let’s not forget, low yield.

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- Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Let us not!
  
  Low yield due to overly specific conditions that are hardly met
  
  Low yield due to short production window
  
  Low yield due to long growth time
  
  Low yield just because
  
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rayyy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not sure that acorns are inedible. They just that they need to be processed.

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Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Also acorns ain’t particularly nutritious.

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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You just remove the tannins by soaking them, it’s not really a major problem. I tried it before, they were fine but fairly bland.

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infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Isn’t acorn flour edible after you rinse out the toxins?

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Let the deer and squirrels and wild pigs eat the acorns, then eat the deer and squirrels and wild pigs. Easy!

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Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Acorns are like the easiest thing to forage, though.

They are high in tannins, which your body is pretty good at processing in reasonable quantities (they’re in tea, coffee, and wine), but many acorns DO have unreasonable quantities of them and they can cause organ damage. Luckily, tannins are water soluble, so you just need to crack them open and soak them in water for a few days, then rinse and they’re safe to eat.

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someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I thought we eat acorns after processing them? There are cuisines which involve acorns as main ingredient.

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