When you are in a survival situation, be it a short-term or a long-term one, you might not have much say so about what you eat. If you’re in a major hurry, lack resources or just have really bad luck, you might not even have time to cook your food.
Some foods are better than others when eaten raw, and not all raw foods are safe to eat. Knowing which ones you can safely eat raw might make the difference between living and dying, or at the very least getting sick or not.
Let’s look at wild onions, for instance. Can you eat raw wild onions to survive?
Wild onions are prolific plants that grow all over North America and around the world in one form or another.
They can help keep you alive, and supplement a diet of other gathered wild edibles by providing you with needed vitamins and minerals, but it’s going to be really hard to tame your appetite with them.
There’s a lot more to know about eating wild onions, raw or not, and I’ll tell you all about it below…
