Is gelatin a real food or is it a food-like substance?

it’s just animals so food

>>21411856
Well it's animal bones and skin and that isn't food so can we really call this substance a food?

>>21411862
It's used as a basis for food, like aspic or Jell-O dessert.

>>21411862
we eat bones and skin, food

>>21411862
>bones and skin arent food

>>21411871
So when you add sugar and food coloring to an animal substance then it becomes food? If I add salt to my toenails then do they become food too?
>>21411880
>hair and toenails aren't food

>>21411881
If it has nutritional value then it's food. Gelatin contains bioavailable protein and a tiny amount of fat, so it's food.
Hair and toenails are made of keratin, which contains no bioavailable nutrients (for humans, at least). Therefore they are not food.

>>21411881
If you could find a way to turn keratin into an edible substance and make food with it, yes, it would be food.

>>21411885
But why does when I eat gelatin that my brain tells me this is not food?

>>21411890
Because you don't like it and are autistic

>>21411895
This vexes me.

>>21411897
Try fondant next, maybe you'll feel the same way

i think the only time i ate something and had a 'this isnt food' response was after opening a jar of cheap chinese chili oil that smelled like something you'd use to finish wood. also once when i was a kid i had a weird sort of awakening while sucking on a tube of one of those sour goo candies that were just straight corn syrup and propylene glycol and thought 'fuck i shouldn't be eating this' and stopped eating candy

>>21411925
I ate way too much gummy candy this weekend and my stomach was messed up for 3 days. Anything that is gummy/gel is not food

>>21411925
i feel that way with dumplings

>>21411853 (OP)

>>21411925
mmm gutter oil

>>21411933
>ate too much
anything is poison if you eat too much of it bro, read ingredients and nutrition labels and have some fuckin restraint. gummi candy is just gelatine, starch, sugar and citric acid, definitely food. i actually doled out sour patch kids to a group of tapped out hikers who left their food base once, starches and proteins are absolutely food when your body uses them

>>21411862
>animal skin isn’t food
Says fucking who?

>>21411969
>a useful protein
>not a complete protein

>>21412238
It means you can't live off of it, basically.

>>21411862
>bones and skin and that isn't food
Chicken skin? Fish skin? Bone marrow?

>>21411862
When you simmer a chicken carcass and the gelatin and collagen releases into the liquid and you have stock, you don't consider that "substance" to be food?

You're a fucking retard. Jell-O is made the same way but the flavor is removed to replace with whatever you like.

>>21411890
You can't even write a correct sentence. Stay off of the internet. At least in a participatory manner.

>>21412238
a protein can be useful even if not complete
like how you can use gelatin to suspend things in it, it's useful
but it itself is not a complete protein
so eat it with some turkey or whatever

>>21412299
>what's for dinner, mom?
>we're having chicken skin with a side of bone marrow
>my favorite!

>>21411897
>inb4 he gave the patient the stupid drug even though he needs mouse bites to live

I hate people who struggle with definitions and simple arguments because they equate "right" with "intuitive to them". Absolute subhumans

>>21411853 (OP)
>>21411862
>>21411881
>>21411890
Food is literally anything you eat with nutritional value that doesn't hurt you. Your brain is retarded.

>>21412719
So if sugar hurts my body then it's not food anymore?

>>21412772
Yes, at a certain point when you eat too much of anything, your body starts rejecting it and no longer processes it like food, and at that point it's just diarrhea. Being pedantic isn't charming or funny, I'm sorry but tv lied to you.

>>21411853 (OP)
it's only food for your skin, so it's a luxury food like a luxury belief

>>21412719
nothing on earth fits both of those criteria

>>21413317
...
Yes. Yes, there is. It's called FOOD!

>>21411853 (OP)
Depends on what's inside.

>>21413344

>>21411853 (OP)
It's no friend.
So it has to be ... food!

>>21413447
It's literally just day old chicken soup.

>>21411853 (OP)
Various chemicals are considered food. Why this should be an exception?

How do I make the toughest and chewiest possible jelly-like dessert? I really enjoy chewing on stuff that requires a lot of force. No hard or leathery stuff, just things with huge jelly resistance.

>>21413606
DISGUSTING

>>21413609
Are toenails food?

>>21413447
Meat jelly is fucking delicious though. You're missing out.

>>21413624
Humans aren't food!

>>21413317
You're brainwashed to fear the 2nd most important thing in the world.

>>21413326
>>21413839
all food causes harm

>>21413614
High bloom gelatin and as little water as you can get away with.

>>21413842
Like I said, brainwashed.

>>21413614
Turkish delight?

>>21413842
>all food causes harm
This is an undeniable Truth. Eat too much food and you will suffer all kinds of maladies.
Eat too little food and people will perceive you as sexually attractive. Skinny girls with big tits are hot.

>>21412697
I never said you're supposed to eat them by themselves you spastic, but people absolutely eat the skin of fish and chickens all the time, and bone marrow isn't that uncommon

>>21413614
try nata de coco, i love that shit

>>21413864
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>>21414420
Thanks, I'll try these out, writing them down now.

>>21414420
You make your own? It's great but making it always looked like a huge pain and unsafe

>>21411871
I thought aspic was gelatine

>>21412697
You joke but that's a great drinking snack

>>21411853 (OP)
Anything your body can safely digest and convert into energy is food, by definition.

>>21411890
Because without additives it has no flavor and no color of its own, it's like water

>>21414892
Yea, is gelatin with beef broth.

>>21411853 (OP)
It's typically used as a binder or a thickener or a stabilizer, and shows up in a lot of foods.
>>21411881
What is this metaphysical nonsense you're trying to spout? If you don't like jello, then don't eat it my friend. You're going to become lost in contradictions if you try to start classifying foods as real or not

>>21415021
So cum is food now too?

Do you mean, does the body shit it out or piss it out? I believe it pisses it out.

>>21416481
Always has been, good protein value too.

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