Can acorns from oak trees be tasty for humans to eat?

they are not poisonuse ,but because of the tanin they contain they taste bitter.

well if you get them off the ground then i think they are not tasty but you cna make thme tasty. i was reading a survival guide that said to boild said acorns in water then discard water and if you had seasonings (idk) then add into acorns. I have tryed such a thing with a MRE (meal ready to eat) army rations taht taste quite good for 5 bucks i boiled the acorns smashed them up and added them to my choco drink mix tasted alright but i wouldnt do it i herd they can make u sick

I remember tasting acorns as kid. I don't recall "tasty"....... INTRODUCTION Acorns have been used as food by Homo sapiens for thousands of years virtually everywhere oaks are found. The worldwide destruction of the acorn resource by mismanagement may well have led to the development of annual plant based agriculture and to civilization as we know it today (Bohrer, 1972; Bainbridge, 1985b). In Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Mid-East, and North America, acorns were once a staple food, (Hedrick, 1919; Loudon, 1844; Brandis, 1972; Lefvebre, 1900; and Bishop, 1891). The Ch'i Min Yao Shu, a Chinese agricultural text from the sixth century recommends Quercus mongolica as a nut tree (Shen Han, 1982). In Spain and Italy acorns provided 20 percent of the diet of many people just before the turn of the Century (Memmo, 1894). Acorns were perhaps nowhere more important than in California. For many of the native Californians acorns made up half of the diet (Heizer and Elsasser, 1980) and the annual harvest probably exceeded the current California sweet corn harvest, of 60,000 tons. Acorn foods remain on the market not only in Korea, China, and North Africa, but in most major American cities, at Korean food stores (Wolfert, 1973; Bainbridge, 1985a). http://www.ecocomposite.org/native/acorns.htm Kaffee-ersatz-ersatz was made of roasted acorns and beechnuts, with just enough roasted barley to build up a coffee flavor. It was said to be better than the first substitute but was also more expensive. Unfortunately, there weren?t enough acorns and beechnuts, much of which was being fed to pigs. Before long the excellent acorn-beechnut coffee disappeared to be replaced by a third substitute whose original ingredients were carrots and yellow turnips. A substitute for tea was not difficult. The bloom of the linden tree mixed with beech buds and a few tips of pine made an excellent "oolong." A cocoa substitute came from coal-tar and chemistry along with roasted peas and oats. http://www.reenactor.net/ww1/morsels/fsc/home_front.html

some people like em but deer love em

Well there is only one way to find out...and frankly I wouldn't suggest trying that. I had the misfortune of indulging in one...yuck.

apparently they are poisonous but i have heard of them being dried and ground into a coffee type drink