I like edamame beans. I have found them tastier with pods intact. I just bought some in a ready-to-eat box and the back says that the pods are inedible. Is there any harm to keep eating the pods? I did not notice ant effects from eating them previously.
It will not be an alien that burst through your torso, although some guy named Jack will thank you.
Maybe ants don’t think they’re edible, either.
(Owww! Stop hitting me!)
I don’t know if there’s anything special about the pods but I would assume that like other non-digestible stuff (chewing gum, parts of corn kernels, etc) it’ll just be excreted normally.
“it’ll just be excreted normally”…[translating]…“you’ll just shit them out”
No they won’t do you any harm. But I have to ask - how the hell do you manage to eat the pods? When I’ve tried them they’ve been as fibrous as all hell (assuming hell is fairly fibrous).
The beans themselves, however, are salty manna from heaven.
Corn is inedible, but that doesn’t stop most Americans from gobbling it down. All roughage is, by definition, inedible. It just means that it’ll pass through your intestines without getting absorbed into them. No big deal.
“Unpalatable” is a whole 'nother matter.
Uhm . . . I ate 'em myself.
Hubby and I decided to order something different at our favorite Japanese resturant. They came as a side dish.
We ate the pods, which, of course, required vigorous chewing, thinking, “Well, this isn’t very good.”
Then we noticed other diners discarding the pods. We looked at each other, laughed a little, and hoped no one else had seen.
We lived. No side effects. I assume they “passed” as all things must.
Well, they are fibrous and pretty chewey, but very tasty.
Lord, I’ve done the same thing. Lived to tell about it.
Didn’t they make a movie or three about all you pod people?