Gold is a common food decoration and considered edible, but of no nutritional value.
Most plants are slow acting poisons, they don’t want to be eaten. Humans have a tolerance for some level of some poisons… Many nuts have trace levels of cyanide, but people eat them anyway… Beans if not soaked can make people very sick, etc …
The core problem is lots of people eat things that aren’t ideal - especially when starving.
Lots of people have gluten sensitivity, they get a inflamed gut when they eat it, but they eat it anyway… so it’s a poison, but it doesn’t kill them quickly, and they will argue gluten is a food…
There are very few perfect foods with no downsides: eggs get pretty close, but even then some people have allergies
Gold is a common food decoration and considered edible, but of no nutritional value.
Most plants are slow acting poisons, they don’t want to be eaten. Humans have a tolerance for some level of some poisons… Many nuts have trace levels of cyanide, but people eat them anyway… Beans if not soaked can make people very sick, etc …
The core problem is lots of people eat things that aren’t ideal - especially when starving.
Lots of people have gluten sensitivity, they get a inflamed gut when they eat it, but they eat it anyway… so it’s a poison, but it doesn’t kill them quickly, and they will argue gluten is a food…
There are very few perfect foods with no downsides: eggs get pretty close, but even then some people have allergies