HOW TO EAT ACORNS 🐿️ ✨ Or… watch me eat acorns, because you might decide it’s too much effort! 😂 Once a staple food across Europe, acorns are rich, nutty, and full of slow-release energy, if you know how to prepare them 😍 The key is leaching out their tannins (the bitter compounds that protect the seed from being eaten in the wild) 🌱 There are two main methods: hot leaching (quick, but it removes some of the oils and starches and I find leads to a less tasty flour), and cold leaching (slow,