![]() If you’re really adventurous you can find sweeter, more edible lichen in the stomachs of reindeer and caribou. If you don’t at least rinse it out you’re going to get a mouthful of soil, stone, and probably dead bugs.īut hey, it’s survival, so we need all the protein we can get! Lichens are often found growing on trees, rocks, and other dirty/gritty places. ![]() ![]() Other foragers will eat lichen and moss raw or dump it right into a soup.Īdding wood ash or baking soda can aid the edibility but not the taste by reducing the acid levels. The best guidelines are presented by Eat the Weeds, which suggests soaking the stuff in multiple changes of water over a period of two days. I didn’t experience that in my taste testing, but I also grew up eating immature crab apples, so I might have a digestive tract accustomed to these foods. On top of that raw lichen and mosses are very acidic in composition and can cause some serious stomach discomfort. ![]() It’s going to be a survival situation where you need to supplement your diet with some foraging. Suffice to say, you won’t be eating these things for their flavor. But after eating several I realized that a scale rating between “terrible” and “even more terrible” wasn’t very helpful. I had the intent of providing an edibility scale here after I sampled the list. These things are not tasty, and no amount of salt, pepper, and garlic will make them mildly appetizing. ![]() So It’s Come to This: Edible Mosses and Lichensĭesperate times call for desperate measures, and that’s about the only time you’ll find yourself eating moss or lichen. We’ll take a look at what mosses and lichen are safe to eat and provide some additional information on what they’re going to contribute to your diet. Moss and lichen are found around the globe and, with very few exceptions, all are edible even if they aren’t very tasty! ![]()
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