How do we test if things are edible or poisonous for humans?

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Lots of people in history have died eating things that they didn’t know were dangerous, but how do we test new species of things now to determine if we can eat it or not?

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are you talking about now or before science?

today, we know the chemical composition of just about everything, so it’s pretty much all been logged.

in the past, they could feed it animals and see what happens. quite a few people did learn the hard way probably.

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