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Yeah don't swallow things which cannot be digested. I have one anecdotal story of a person swallowing dried bay leaf which then got stuck "at the exit".

• n1b0m 1y ago
  Surely that wouldn’t survive the stomach acids.
  • javawizard 1y ago
    They do: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-685/bay-leaf#sideeffects https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-685/bay-lea...
    • abrookewood 1y ago
      Wow .. I had no idea. I'd always assumed you were supposed to remove them from cooking because they would taste bad if eaten directly - not that you couldn't actually digest them!
      • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
        Yeah a lot of different leaves don't break down well in the digestive track without friction or longer digestion periods (which are adaptations that actual herbivores have). This is also why they (bay leaves or more generally all laurel leaves) are such a massive pain in the ass to compost in most places. The wonders of insoluble fiber and wax coatings on leaves.
        • woleium 1y ago
          s/track/tract/g
          • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
            lol yep. idk how I managed to do that one.
    • n1b0m 1y ago
      I stand corrected. Something to watch out for
• hshdhdhehd 1y ago
  Except for dietary fibre :)
• sph 1y ago
  > Yeah don't swallow things which cannot be digested. This gentleman would have disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito Quote: "His digestive system allowed him to consume up to 900 g (2.0 lb) of metal per day."
  • yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    Spiders^wMetals Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
• Esophagus4 1y ago
  Fortunately it’s not always bad news! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30565781 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30565781