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Can you eat mesquite

Updated: 11/10/2022
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Eating the leaves or the wood of the mesquite tree would not be very tasty.

However, the Comanche Indians living in the southwestern plains used to harvest seeds (beans) from the mesquite tree, and grind them into a paste which they used to sweeten and flavor their meat.

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