Paper tastes good for no reason

IRL cockroach@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 32 points –
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You know that dude that bet he could recognize toilet paper brands by taste? He won that bet.

Also the reason paper tastes sweet is xylotol (wood sugar). It has some amazing properties and is edible in small doses.

How small is small? And what happens beyond it?

Enought for most chewing gum. After about two tea spoons I start shitting my brains out. That warning on tic tacs about not earing too much at once? Thats for the xylotol inside.

There's a video (below) where they make rice crispies with sawdust as an added ingredient. Like 10-30% sawdust was fine and just affected the texture. It wasn't until 50% sawdust that they tasted bad. https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU?si=79LBDaYnRmLa1cSn

Found all the kids who ate glue in class...

I just ate paper and fabric when I was younger

My mom started putting spices on my shirts so I stopped eating fabric

A statement doesn’t make it true, even when believed by few

Lmao, dude didn't take op for his word and thought "I won't really know if I like paper until I eat this whole book". So by panel two he's devoured the whole book, and you know what? He doesn't really like paper.

Paper is cellulose and glue. Cellulose doesn't have any flavor, so you're probably enjoying the glue as it dissolves.

I can verify from long-ago experience that the paper in school exercise books does not taste good. Do you think they add bittering agents?

I'm with you. I've been chewing paper my whole life. Love it. Am I broken?