🌰 What You Can Really Eat Outdoors
Nutritional value per 100 g of each survival food — plants, mollusks, fish, game, and insects — to compare what is actually worth the harvesting effort.
★ Walnuts and pine nuts exceed 650 kcal/100 g — more energy-dense than most store-bought nuts.
★ Acorns are edible only after leaching: raw tannins cause nausea and severe digestive distress.
★ Dried nori delivers around 39 g of protein/100 g — more than a raw beef steak, for a fraction of the harvest effort.
★ Traditional pemmican (meat + fat) hits 560 kcal/100 g, engineered to last months without refrigeration.
★ Elderberries must always be cooked: raw, they contain potentially toxic cyanogenic glycosides.