He knew his physics more than his chemistry… or was that biology? Well, not being a total idiot, he knew some things. Raw vegetables meant cellulose; cellulose meant bad times for your digestion if you ate a vegetable raw. Thankfully, most ponies were sane and preferred all their food cooked to some degree, but that didn’t help everything. Some plants just did nothing for his system even if they passed through without a problem. Take hay for example. Did you know ponies have over six hundred and fifty different kinds of hay, some of which they developed themselves? Handy didn’t. Did you know some of them, probably due to the fact they were not in fact hay but something else entirely, were digestible to humans and were actually quite delicious? Handy did.