Winter Foraging Caloric Efficiency

Used in

• Chapter 7 The Orchard and the Wild

The rows that check it

• 2 confirmed
• 2 amended
• 1 unresolved
• 1 marked for safety

• O4 amended Safety Raw acorn tannins strip stomach, renal failure; leach cold 3–10 days or hot in hours; floaters have weevils
• O41 confirmed Acorn 58 % starch, 5–12 % oil, 300–400 kcal/100 g flour; autumn return 600–1,350 kcal/h; weevils 35–90 %; mast gone by January
• O42 unresolved Beech mast: oil, fagin mildly toxic in quantity, lamp oil and hunger years
• O43 amended Sloe 57 kcal/100 g after frost; sea buckthorn 82 kcal, up to 600 mg vit C; 1 kg/h vs 300–500 kcal/h; "negligible or negative"
• O46 confirmed Inulin 1.5 kcal/g; tuber 80 % water, 15 g/100 g → 22.5 kcal; 2.6 kg per 600 kcal hour; body figures from one blog

In the Index

Wild food and game Nutrition and the year's food Berlin and Brandenburg