It was this or send it home with Kristi Noem.

Found this Spanish language article about it. Sounds like a single company has developed the process to make it edible in 1999.

https://www.7canibales.com/despensa/yacaratia-madera-comestible/

Depending on your media that may not really destroy the data. SSDs do wear leveling and it might just write new blocks and reuse the old ones later.

Most of the bad ones are “plant based”. Maybe extracting the protein also concentrates any trace lead.

Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too

Also just yay