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Can humans eat wood?

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Though it contains glucose, a vital carbohydrate, the human digestive system is not capable of breaking it down, which is one of the main reasons we can't normally eat wood.

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No, although sawdust was used to pad flour during WW2 in Europe, people cannot digest cellulose,

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