Do you consume fruits with the skin or peel them off
By Dinu024
@Dinu024 (315)
India
August 14, 2009 12:37am CST
Well, to my knowledge the major vitamins and nutrients are concentrated more on the skin of the fruits and vegetables, so I clean(wash) the fruits well and consume them as such with the skin. Of course, I take care not to eat banana skins and jack-fruit skins and other peels he he
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@miks_redhot (132)
• India
14 Aug 09
Mostly i prefer fruits with their skin peeled off.. but some like apple and guavas i like them with their skin on but washed.....
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@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
15 Aug 09
I agree with you. I eat fruit with skins. but not all the fruit I eat with the skin. I often eat apples and guava with the skin.
@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
15 Aug 09
I peel all the fruits that are not grown in such a place that I know for sure there´s no chemicals in them. I have friends who live in the country and have a couple of fruit trees away from their crop (avocados) that have to be fumigated). Those I eat. And, of course, the apricots from my apricot tree and one (1) cherry from my daughter´s baby cherry tree (it´s in the stage where you count the fruit
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@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
16 Aug 09
It depends on the fruit. I peel bananas and oranges, but most everything else I eat with skin. Peaches, apples and even kiwi fruit. I like the peel and its supposed to have a lot more nutrients than the meat. I don't know if its true or not. I have a friend who won't eat peaches because of the peeling and kiwi she won't touch either! Oh.. I don't eat the watermelon or cantelope peels either!
@frozenimage (464)
• United States
14 Aug 09
There are some fruits that can eaten with the skin own. There are some such as the orange that needs the skin to be peeled because of the pith (white layer) between fruit content and skin tastes horrible.
@yogambal_64 (1014)
• India
14 Aug 09
Yes as you say most of the fruits should be eaten with their skin, until and unless it is absolutely necessary to remove the skin, I have seen many people peeling off the skin before eating a fruit, this is not the appropriate method as the nutrients are lost.
@UTKARSH777 (82)
• India
14 Aug 09
I always prefer to eat the fruits wih their skins as they contain many sources of good health...but i don't think that anyone would like to eat the un peeled bananas.....
