Posted: 5/30/2012 1:17:20 PM EDT
| A weird thought occurred to me since I have thousands of "helicopters" all over my lawn, are the seeds in these things edible?, and are there any recipes? I was wondering if they could just be peeled, roasted, and salted like peanuts, or sunflower seeds. What nutritional value, if any do they have? |
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5th result from Google was this
Apparently they are. ETA - Looks like most of that was people bitching about not using Google. Not very helpful, really |
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Google has many sources saying yes, but wiki is cited frequently (hard to trust wiki with my life), and the links I have read are mixed on hard info.
It seems you can eat them raw, but if they are bitter you need to boil the tannin out of them. There are several different species of Maple. Not sure if that is relevant. I couldn't find much other than "you can eat them raw or roast them like sunflower seeds." I know the squirrels have eaten most of ours that have fallen to the ground. |
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I personally wouldn't bother eating them myself. I wouldn't hesitate to feed them to chicken, pigs, rabbits, goats.
They are too small for the amount of work to pull the wings, etc. But, after being processed by the above.... YUM, love that maple flavored BBQ :) My $.02 
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