Title says all. Plant cells are covered by cell wall made of cellulose. The human body doesn’t have the enzyme cellulase to digest it, so why do we eat them? Do they just pass through us? If so, why are they ‘healthy’?
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“we” do very little of the actual digestion of our food. Most of it is done by the microbes living in our gut and the fiber in the plants gives them more surface area to grow and helps move things along so our guts can collect the nutrients easier
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