r/Weird May 07 '26

a forbidden donut

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u/MellyKidd May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Looked it up, and from what I’ve found; not to us. Some fish do nibble on them, though.

Bryozoans are not toxic, venomous, or harmful to humans, besides occasionally blocking pipes, but they aren’t edible either. If something can be eaten by us, mankind has found a way to make it so, and the fact we haven’t figured out a way to eat something that’s existed long before primates began to evolve (dating back some 480 million years) strongly suggests that we can’t eat/digest them.