cellulose

The researchers say that the most important question of the study is whether the panda’s carnivore-like microbial structure can still effectively utilize cellulose.

When sugars/carbohydrates are slowly extracted from a thick matrix of cellulose, they're delivered slowly but surely to your system.

We need tricksy things like fiber and animal protein, but crickets can get by on simple sugars and cellulose.

Along with sugar, in a fruit you have fiber, basically cellulose and lignine, chitines in fungus like a champignon.

Highly processed foods have done away with most of the cellulose or at the very least broken it down significantly.

There is almost no macronutrient in dandelion, as besides water it's almost entirely indigestible cellulose fibre.

Then inert, known-safe binders and fillers are added, like cellulose and dextrose, to make the dosage amount more convenient for handling and swallowing.

All carbohydrates (save cellulose) are processed into the monosaccharide glucose at some point.

Trees convert co2 into cellulose, until they die and rot, releasing the co2.

Interestingly enough, from the same link, Dupont appears to have invented/optimized a moisture-proof cellulose, which may have been what the author was referring to?

Are there any other animals who have a simple digestive system, like the pandas, but due to their bacterial content can in fact digest cellulose?

It's funny how extracting and concentrating sucrose from certain hemi- and cellulose fibers (like their sponsor does) isn't very different from extracting and concentrating xylitol from other hemi- and cellulose fibers, but to some, it's worlds apart.

From the article: "Eisen says that some of the microbes in the panda gut might still be highly efficient at breaking down cellulose.

Actually we usually use the word "sellotape" for the clear "Scotch® Brand Cellulose Tape" they describe in the article, or certainly everyone I know does.

"Rotting" usually means being slowly consumed by fungi and bacteria, which ultimately break a good part of the cellulose down to very simple compounds like CO₂ and water.

For instance, if the blast were in line-of-sight of multiple high-voltage transmission lines then extra-high-voltage transformers (think >200 kV) could “melt-down” (that is to say, the cellulose insulation is damaged by higher than normal temperature of the oil caused by the excess DC current, but maybe I am wrong?).

Cellulose is, after all, a carbohydrate!