Leather horse armor cannot be eaten despite being given proper components

Upon giving yourself Leather horse armor with proper components the player is unable to eat it regardless if they should be able to. 
To recreate in game run these commands 

/give @p leather_horse_armor[food =

{nutrition:4,saturation:6,can_always_eat:true,eat_seconds:2}

] 1

Notice how you cannot eat this item, however if you replace the item with stone for example

/give @p stone[food=

{nutrition:4,saturation:6,can_always_eat:true,eat_seconds:2}

] 1 

This command will properly produce an item that can be consumed despite no component changes

{EDIT] the horse armor command sometimes has an arbitrary \ before the equal sign for a reason beyond me as i cannot remove it no matter what i try due to it being a bug on the site itself. Please remove the \ before testing in game