#vegetable skins

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Fruit and Veggie Skins You Can Eat.. Here's The List...

Fruit and Veggie Skins You Can Eat,, Here's the list you need to know.

By Stay Healthy Research Team Potato 1/11 Although you might be more interested in what’s inside the potato, its skin has fiber and tons of nutrients, like vitamins B and C, potassium, calcium, and iron. Peach 2/11 The fuzzy skin on peaches is packed with antioxidants and vitamins. Not only that, it has lots of dietary fiber, too. Peach skin has loads of vitamin A. There are also…

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Whenever my mom made eggplant growing up, she peeled it. As a result, I guess, I hate the skin of eggplants though I eat the skin on pretty much everything else (except the obvious stuff, like kiwis). But she left the skin on things like cucumbers and potatoes, and I enjoy the texture of those skins.

I’m a youtube cooking video addict (specifically Food Wishes with Chef John, Gennaro Contaldo, and Jamie Oliver), and I notice they always leave the skins on eggplants. And I think every time, why on earth did they not peel those?!

But I’m sitting at my desk eating some cucumbers with the skins on and I wonder if other people are like, “Ew, geez, peel your cucumbers” as they walk by. But it’s the kind of thing nobody would go out of their way to say out loud. So I guess I’ll never know unless I ask.

Thoughts for the day. 

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9 Healthy Food Scraps You Shouldn't Be Throwing Away...

We waste a third of the world’s food supply every year along with all the energy and water needed to produce it. However, we may be chucking away food scraps that are not scraps at all. Many fruit and vegetables have skins and leaves which we commonly discard that are more colourful and higher in nutritious phytochemicals like carotenoids and flavonoids than the flesh. These deliver a greater…

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