Question: what would happen if i ate a tree

Christina Pagel answered on 19 Jun 2013:

do you think you could eat a *whole* tree?!

Humans lack an enzyme that digests some plant matter – so you wouldn’t be able to digest most bark and leaves i guess… you’d probably get sick and have a big tummy ache. Plus i can’t imagine it tastes very nice!

But some bits of some trees are edible and other trees are really poisonous and so it does depend a bit on which tree you wanted for your dinner!