>Charles wrote:
>> The staple food of the native Californians was acorns. These are nuts, of
>> course, and have a high fat and protein content, with some carbo.
>
>I don't believe that acorns would be recognized as paleo though. Don't they
>require preparation such as cooking/soaking to be eaten?
>
>--Richard
As children growing up in California my friends and I made acorn mush. We
had to leach them for days after pounding them to a pulp. They are
extremely bitter and, I believe, poisonous. There can't be much nutrition
left in them by the time they get edible; there certainly wasn't much taste.
ginny and Tomo
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