Looking at the pesticide scores, one should not eat any fruit/vegetable without peeling if it has any.
That is why you wash your food before eating it same as you do with legumes and rice (that likely also have had pesticide on them).
Eating Fruit Skins
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#32Mango skin, leaves, and sap contain compounds related to urushiol, the allergen in poison ivy.
Huh, that's neat, so get used to eating mango skin, and eventually you can eat poison ivy? Kind of handy, thanks!
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#33Looking at the pesticide scores, one should not eat any fruit/vegetable without peeling if it has any.
That is why you wash your food before eating it same as you do with legumes and rice (that likely also have had pesticide on them).
In South Korea (where I used to live for a while) it's quite common to wash fruit with soapy water at home before eating them.
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#34Mango skin, leaves, and sap contain compounds related to urushiol, the allergen in poison ivy.
I started eating mango skin a few months ago. When it's thin and bland, it's not bad. Gives a nice crunch to the eating experience. But often it's way too thick and sometimes strongly bitter.
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#35Eating an apple the right way: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42b8Zah8-jM
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#36When I realized you can just eat kiwi with the skin on (if it's a very hairy one, brush them off under running water) and in no time it actually tastes better (adds some lovely contrast), it became my favorite zero-ennui fruit. It almost feels like a cheat code for something so tasty and large to require so little effort! Now, I never thought that kiwi skins are not edible of course, but I just assumed they're someho…
I like that you can take a bite directly through a kiwi
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#37I am reminded of the saying in my family: Anything is edible if you're willing to eat it. My late father-in-law ate entire apples-- core and all. I've tried but I can't stomach the texture or how much more the fibrous parts of the core get stuck in my teeth. It doesn't disgust me, I just don't prefer it. Not to miss an opportunity to talk about apples: I started eating three apples / day for lunch last year. I hadn't…
All mushrooms are edible, but some mushrooms are edible only once.
All mushrooms are edible only once, unless you're into coprophagia
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#38I do like to save watermelon rinds and cook them into soup. Anyone have a use for banana peels?
Banana peel oleo saccharum... you can add it to drinks and cocktails for a punch of banana.
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#39When I realized you can just eat kiwi with the skin on (if it's a very hairy one, brush them off under running water) and in no time it actually tastes better (adds some lovely contrast), it became my favorite zero-ennui fruit. It almost feels like a cheat code for something so tasty and large to require so little effort! Now, I never thought that kiwi skins are not edible of course, but I just assumed they're someho…
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#40Looking at the pesticide scores, one should not eat any fruit/vegetable without peeling if it has any.
That is why you wash your food before eating it same as you do with legumes and rice (that likely also have had pesticide on them).
But peanuts and white rice, the most common ones have already been 'peeled'