eli5 : Why can’t we (humans) eat wood? It contains glucose, and termites can eat it for example! (Even if raw wood would be pretty hard to chew, we could mix it down into some kind of paste or powder, so idk)
In: Biology
It doesn’t contain glucose as such. Cellulose is a polymer of sugar-type molecules bonded together. They are not released by our digestive system but some animals can break it down.
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