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Acorn

What it is

Oak nuts ground to flour — the dietary cornerstone of Native California (acorn mush) and Korea (dotori-muk), once the leaching is done.

Why your biology objects

A starchy, fatty whole food once the tannins are leached out — astringent polyphenols the traditional running-water and basket methods removed over generations. The prep is the technology; leached acorn fed whole peoples for millennia.

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