Apart from water and salt, are there any inorganic foods? - eviltoast

An overwhelming majority of what we eat is made from plants and animals. This means that composition of our almost entire food is chemicals from the realm of organic chemistry (carbon-based large molecules). Water and salt are two prominent examples of non-organic foodstuffs - which come from the realm of inorganic chemistry. Beside some medicines is there any more non-organic foods? Can we eat rocks, salts, metals, oxides… and I just don’t know that?

  • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Organic compounds don’t have a strict consensus based definition today. So any matter of fact statement isn’t widely held any longer. It’s just one school of thought so to speak.

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      1 year ago

      You’re right- primarily because science changes as new things are discovered and therefore the definition changes.

      I still think the definition I learned with C-H covalent bonds indicating organic has fewer exceptions than other definitions.