THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Warning – Edible Weeds WARNING: This test (or a very similar one) is given in many of the survival books, however it is not recommended to use this test on any unknown plant(s) unless you are in a situation where there are no other options for survival. Since you can live easily without food for a week or more (and probably a few weeks or more depending on the situation), unless you are lost for an extended period of time, in most cases you would be better off NOT to use this test at all. (Though it’s okay — and generally a good idea — to use this test on plants that you are already able to identify and know to be safe to eat, just to be even more sure.)

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Warning – Edible Weeds WARNING: This test (or a very similar one) is given in many of the survival books, however it is not recommended to use this test on any unknown plant(s) unless you are in a situation where there are no other options for survival. Since you can live easily without food for a week or more (and probably a few weeks or more depending on the situation), unless you are lost for an extended period of time, in most cases you would be better off NOT to use this test at all. (Though it’s okay — and generally a good idea — to use this test on plants that you are already able to identify and know to be safe to eat, just to be even more sure.)

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

That’s what Burke and Wills knew. It didn’t save them. Better off to know what the indigines eat and how they prepare it.

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Warning – Edible Weeds WARNING: This test (or a very similar one) is given in many of the survival books, however it is not recommended to use this test on any unknown plant(s) unless you are in a situation where there are no other options for survival. Since you can live easily without food for a week or more (and probably a few weeks or more depending on the situation), unless you are lost for an extended period of time, in most cases you would be better off NOT to use this test at all. (Though it’s okay — and generally a good idea — to use this test on plants that you are already able to identify and know to be safe to eat, just to be even more sure.)

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

Need some veg with the beef PWM?

PermeateFree said:

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Warning – Edible Weeds WARNING: This test (or a very similar one) is given in many of the survival books, however it is not recommended to use this test on any unknown plant(s) unless you are in a situation where there are no other options for survival. Since you can live easily without food for a week or more (and probably a few weeks or more depending on the situation), unless you are lost for an extended period of time, in most cases you would be better off NOT to use this test at all. (Though it’s okay — and generally a good idea — to use this test on plants that you are already able to identify and know to be safe to eat, just to be even more sure.)

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

Need some veg with the beef PWM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelina_sativa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Warning – Edible Weeds WARNING: This test (or a very similar one) is given in many of the survival books, however it is not recommended to use this test on any unknown plant(s) unless you are in a situation where there are no other options for survival. Since you can live easily without food for a week or more (and probably a few weeks or more depending on the situation), unless you are lost for an extended period of time, in most cases you would be better off NOT to use this test at all. (Though it’s okay — and generally a good idea — to use this test on plants that you are already able to identify and know to be safe to eat, just to be even more sure.)

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

Need some veg with the beef PWM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelina_sativa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea

MV eats the Portulaca and I use it as a garnish. It grows in my veggie garden. I think it was MV that told me to pick in the morning as the taste changes….so I tested that, and he was right. There is a lot of it around the town here, in the roadside vegetation and the gardens. I just let the ones that come up in the veggie patch do their thing, pick a few tips for tops of salads and then use the old plants to mulch.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

Need some veg with the beef PWM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelina_sativa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea

MV eats the Portulaca and I use it as a garnish. It grows in my veggie garden. I think it was MV that told me to pick in the morning as the taste changes….so I tested that, and he was right. There is a lot of it around the town here, in the roadside vegetation and the gardens. I just let the ones that come up in the veggie patch do their thing, pick a few tips for tops of salads and then use the old plants to mulch.

All true. Only eat it from your garden though. Leave the stuff on the roadsides. As you know, it will be contaminated.

Good to know.

Rule 303 said:

Good to know.

Deep watering it improves its edibility.

A problem Australia has even when it has legislated for medical cannabis products is the fact that we are the only country in the world that forbids eating the seed of the plant.

Hemp seeds are notable as a high-protein food source, providing 73% of the Daily Value (DV) in a 100 g serving. Hempseed amino acid profile is comparable to other sources of protein such as meat, milk, eggs and soy. Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score values (PDCAAS), which measure the degree to which a food for humans is a “complete protein”, were 0.49-0.53 for whole hemp seed, 0.46-0.51 for hemp seed meal, and 0.63-0.66 for dehulled hemp seed.

Hemp seeds are also a rich source of the dietary minerals, magnesium (160% DV), zinc (77% DV) and iron (53% DV), and a good source of dietary fiber (13% DV).

Approximately 73% of the energy in hemp seeds is in the form of fats and essential fatty acids, mainly polyunsaturated fatty acids, linoleic, oleic and alpha-linolenic acids. (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Food )

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

I’ve been testing poisonous plants for edibility most of my life, so know that the above test is somewhat lacking.

A) do not touch test plant on lips, use a less sensitive part of the body such as calf or thigh. A slight swelling on the leg is not going to be as painful or dangerous as heavily swollen lips.

B) “small” is not nearly specific enough. For first test one cubic millimetre. Then increase one step at a time using powers of 10 through 10mm^3, 0.1ml, 1ml, 10ml, 100ml with at least an hour’s break between each.

C) teach yourself the taste of the most common plant poisons, just about everybody already knows tanins, the next most common are saponins (soap-like chemicals).

D) learn how to remove common poisons from food. The combination of first grinding into flour, then soaking overnight in water, then baking into bread, will get rid of many poisons including poisonous proteins such as ricin, as well as cyanide, and will allow you to eat poisonous plants used by aboriginals as staple crops such as cycads, and nardoo, as well as other staple crops such as cassava. For prickly pair, sear the entire surface in a flame before touching with any part of your body.

E) don’t eat any plant that glows in the dark without proper preparation, luciferase isn’t deadly but will make you vomit.

F) read both books “poisonous plants of Australia” and “wild foods of Australia”.

G) don’t eat plants that have recently been sprayed with either insecticide or herbicide.

mollwollfumble said:

Peak Warming Man said:

THE “UNIVERSAL EDIBILITY TEST”

Many people have died eating wild plants which they thought were edible. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) are even more dangerous — the best attitude to fungi is to not even consider eating wild fungi under any circumstances. They contain almost no calories anyway. Even at least one expert on mycology (the study of fungi) along with all of his family has died from eating wild fungi that they believed to be edible.

Furthermore, to avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have:

• Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

THE TEST

When tasting unknown plants follow these guidelines to find out whether it is edible.

1.Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

2.Smell the potential food plant for strong or acid odours (but remember smell alone does not indicate if plant is edible).

3.Select a small portion of a single part of the plant (i.e. fruit) and prepare it in the way you plan to eat it.

4.Touch a small portion to the outer surface of the lips (testing for itching or burning sensation).

5.If no reaction after 3 minutes then place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

6.If no reaction, chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

7.If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow.

8.Wait 8 hours, if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

9.If no ill effects occur eat half a cup of the plant part prepared the same way. Wait 8 hours, if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

I’ve been testing poisonous plants for edibility most of my life, so know that the above test is somewhat lacking.

A) do not touch test plant on lips, use a less sensitive part of the body such as calf or thigh. A slight swelling on the leg is not going to be as painful or dangerous as heavily swollen lips.

B) “small” is not nearly specific enough. For first test one cubic millimetre. Then increase one step at a time using powers of 10 through 10mm^3, 0.1ml, 1ml, 10ml, 100ml with at least an hour’s break between each.

C) teach yourself the taste of the most common plant poisons, just about everybody already knows tanins, the next most common are saponins (soap-like chemicals).

D) learn how to remove common poisons from food. The combination of first grinding into flour, then soaking overnight in water, then baking into bread, will get rid of many poisons including poisonous proteins such as ricin, as well as cyanide, and will allow you to eat poisonous plants used by aboriginals as staple crops such as cycads, and nardoo, as well as other staple crops such as cassava. For prickly pair, sear the entire surface in a flame before touching with any part of your body.

E) don’t eat any plant that glows in the dark without proper preparation, luciferase isn’t deadly but will make you vomit.

F) read both books “poisonous plants of Australia” and “wild foods of Australia”.

G) don’t eat plants that have recently been sprayed with either insecticide or herbicide.

Army has a similar test but the first touch is crush the berry or whatever and smear it on your inner wrist, before you get close to testing it on your lips.

> Milky or discoloured sap. • Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. • Bitter or soapy taste. • Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. • Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage. • “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. • Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. • Three-leaved growth pattern.

I should also mention errors in the above, mainly due to a northern hemisphere bias. For seeds inside pods, wattle seeds are edible and delicious, though a bit tough until you get used to them. All parts of the rose bush are edible despite thorns. As for three-leaved growth pattern, clover is edible and delicious, oxalis is a tasty treat.

Thanks, PWM

> 1. Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

I generally do, but there’s no reason to. With the exception of unripe berries, as a general rule if any one part of a plant is edible then all parts are edible and visa versa. It shouldn’t be on the edibility test.

> 5. … place the plant part on the tongue holding there for 15 minutes

You do know that that’s physically impossible, don’t you.

> 6. … chew a portion without swallowing and wait 15 minutes

Also dangerous, many poisons that are harmless if swallowed very fast are deadly if held chewed in the mouth. According the the “A is for Arsenic” book I recently read.

> 9. if any ill effects occur during this time drink lots of water and induce vomiting.

Vomiting is good. And water helps. An alternative is to keep activated charcoal (or burnt toast) on hand during the experiment, it does a good job of absorbing poisons (an nutrients, by the way) in the stomach.

> 9. … if no ill effects occur then the plant part as prepared is edible.

No. Two more stages to consider. One is that a plant that passes this test could lead to diarrhea. The second is, for example raw nardoo, where eating it stops certain metabolic processes that in turn stop the absorption of nutrients from other foods. And you starve to death.

The test also gives no clue as to that “ill effects” are, so doesn’t tell you what to look for. Check for exhaustion (cyanide). Get someone to look at your pupils, if too large or too small then the poison is interfering with the acetylcholine part of your nervous system. If it leads to intoxication, you also may not notice (eg. Jimson weed in the USA) but others will.

> carrot, parsnip, or parsley like foliage.

That is to avoid hemlock. At least one person in Britain died after consuming a parsley sandwich that his children had made for him. The lesson there is to prepare your own food. No deadly species of hemlock are native to Australia.

All in all, this edibility test is about as crappy as it could possibly be.

> 1. Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

I generally do, but there’s no reason to. With the exception of unripe berries, as a general rule if any one part of a plant is edible then all parts are edible and visa versa. It shouldn’t be on the edibility test.<<

Suppose it depends on the nutritional value, as with grains the seed is edible and nutritious, but the leaves, roots etc., although probably not killing you, are otherwise useless.

PermeateFree said:

> 1. Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

I generally do, but there’s no reason to. With the exception of unripe berries, as a general rule if any one part of a plant is edible then all parts are edible and visa versa. It shouldn’t be on the edibility test.<<

Suppose it depends on the nutritional value, as with grains the seed is edible and nutritious, but the leaves, roots etc., although probably not killing you, are otherwise useless.

In Australia a very simple test is to bite a leaf, which if bitter or tastes unpleasant, is advisable to discard immediately and concentrate your time looking for better prospects. Also any toxins are usually concentrated in the fruits, so you want to be very sure they are edible before ingesting.

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

> 1. Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

I generally do, but there’s no reason to. With the exception of unripe berries, as a general rule if any one part of a plant is edible then all parts are edible and visa versa. It shouldn’t be on the edibility test.<<

Suppose it depends on the nutritional value, as with grains the seed is edible and nutritious, but the leaves, roots etc., although probably not killing you, are otherwise useless.

In Australia a very simple test is to bite a leaf, which if bitter or tastes unpleasant, is advisable to discard immediately and concentrate your time looking for better prospects. Also any toxins are usually concentrated in the fruits, so you want to be very sure they are edible before ingesting.

Slightly off topic but what raw animal meat could humans digest without running the risk of getting ill, fish is one

Cymek said:

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

> 1. Test only one part of a potential plant at a time

I generally do, but there’s no reason to. With the exception of unripe berries, as a general rule if any one part of a plant is edible then all parts are edible and visa versa. It shouldn’t be on the edibility test.<<

Suppose it depends on the nutritional value, as with grains the seed is edible and nutritious, but the leaves, roots etc., although probably not killing you, are otherwise useless.

In Australia a very simple test is to bite a leaf, which if bitter or tastes unpleasant, is advisable to discard immediately and concentrate your time looking for better prospects. Also any toxins are usually concentrated in the fruits, so you want to be very sure they are edible before ingesting.

Slightly off topic but what raw animal meat could humans digest without running the risk of getting ill, fish is one

The flesh of all or most mammals and birds are edible, as are most reptiles, although many amphibians are very poisonous. Just be careful what part of the animal you eat.

Surely it’s easier to find the nearest Maccas. There’s millions of those around.

Divine Angel said:

Surely it’s easier to find the nearest Maccas. There’s millions of those around.

Their food will kill you too, just takes a little longer.

I asked the question as on an episode of The Walking Dead a teenage girl came across a turtle and ate it raw and I was wondering if you could actually keep raw turtle meat down, starvation probably plays a factor but if you’ve been on a restrictive diet wouldn’t your stomach shrinks restricting your ability to binge ear.

Cymek said:

I asked the question as on an episode of The Walking Dead a teenage girl came across a turtle and ate it raw and I was wondering if you could actually keep raw turtle meat down, starvation probably plays a factor but if you’ve been on a restrictive diet wouldn’t your stomach shrinks restricting your ability to binge ear.

You could always let it soak in its juices to turn it into a well known soup.