Acorns were an important food source for most California Indians with one significant problem:
a. They contain a poison, tannic acid, which must be leached out using a time-consuming process.
b. Each oak tree produces only a few pounds of acorns, so harvesting enough takes a long time.
c. Oak trees grow in only a few parts of California, so Indians who lived in other regions had to trade for acorns.
d. Acorns were plentiful but not highly nutritious.
a
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