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Eating the Whole Thing (Skins, Seeds, Hulls, Rind, Peel) YSWIAG

I want to know what parts of foods often thrown away you eat and also any knowledge on that subject in terms of beneficial nutrients.

I eat the whole Apple (not the stem)

Done Kiwis b4 (nice if they are washed first) I actually kinda like the skin its weird…dehydrating with the skins on is nice

What about melons and bananas (any uses for that peel?)

Are there any things that should be avoided? seeds? or (to reach out and broaden the topic) anything raw…heard things about potatoes, some kinds of beans,

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  • I use the zest of oranges, lemons and limes when I can..

    I eat the whole kiwi minus the two very end slices.. I LOVE the skin.

    I eat really close to the apple core! ha! I should just eat it all.

    sometimes i put my strawberry greens into the smoothie if i’m making one. does anyone know if that’s okay to do? hopefully it is!

    I heard you can eat the carrot greens and well beet greens are fantastic..

  • I love carrot greens! They have a fragrant taste with a little bite that adds great flavor to salads.

  • I enjoy goin vertical on the apple…you should def. try it Mango…I believe the seeds contain B-2 which may have anti cancer properties..they are also slightly toxic…containing a cyanide compound (amygdalin)...you would have to eat hundreds or thousands (of seeds) for it to hurt your body.

    The carrots I have been getting have been neutered…

    elizabeth: what kinds of seaweed do you like?...I love dulse and wish it wasnt so expensive

  • If I eat an apple I eat all but the stem too. It won’t kill ya.

  • I remember eating the entire apple when I was younger!

    somewhere down the road i stopped.. hmmm! I’ll get right on that!

  • I’m definitely all for eating whole fruits and veggies but do be careful of certain things like apple SEEDS, I’ve read that they are toxic. Does anyone else know of other bits to avoid in our quest for WHOLE FOODS :)?

  • elizabethhelizabethh Raw Newbie

    Generally apple seeds are considered to be toxic, how intense of a toxin, I don’t know. But keeping in mind that fruit “wants” to be eaten, it does not “want” you to eat its seeds, because the reason a tree for example would produce fruit is so you would eat the sweet tasting fruit and then throw the seeds on the ground, where they may grow into a new tree, thus helping the tree’s reproductive “goals.”
    Correct me if I’m wrong though.

  • jenny2052jenny2052 Raw Newbie

    I love grape seeds! I have to search high and low for seeded grapes, though.

  • kundalalitakundalalita Raw Newbie

    I eat the skin of the mango along with the mango… im gonna try eating the kiwi skin along with it inspired by this thread!

  • Elizabethh: I offer a basic description of the toxin in my second post…
    Your reproductive analysis seems right on to me.

    The mango skin has some nutrients in it that differ from the juicy innards.

  • I’ve heard that banana skins can actually be used to get rid of warts by tying a piece of it around the wart overnight and doing that till it’s gone. I don’t have any warts so I don’t know if it works. :0)
    If the skin of the fruit is organic I like to eat it (as long as it’s edible, for exaple,papaya skin isn’t)
    I love beet leaves in my smoothies.
    As for strawberry greens, I just put the whole thing in my smoothies if they’re from our garden.
    The eyes of the potatoes are very toxic, don’t eat those.

     

  • LucyLucy Raw Newbie

    The apple seeds are very toxin for the stomach,as Elizabethh said.The grape seeds are excellent to be eaten,and I’ve heard that the avocado seed is very good.I’ve never try it.

  • skizzyskizzy Raw Newbie

    sky princess: does that go for sweet potatoes too? and can one cut off the eyes and still eat the potato?

    elizabethh: i don’t know. animals in the wild are usually undiscerning about seeds and eat them along with the fruit. i think the idea is that they don’t get digested so they get pooped out onto the ground, ready to grow in a cocoon of fertilizer!

    lucy: how would one eat an avocado seed? it’s hard as a rock!

  • RawVoiceRawVoice Raw Newbie

    Watermelon rind can be juiced and consumed with the rest of the watermelon. It’s recommended that you consume both to get the whole food. Mango skins can be eaten if you are not allergic to them which many people are. Mango are part of the poison oak family. I also eat kiwi skins. They taste just fine to me.

    I’m sort of bummed to hear about toxic apple seeds. I’m sitting here drinking a smoothie with the whole apple in it.

  • RawVoiceRawVoice Raw Newbie

    I just found this on Rhio’s site. Very interesting!!

    In a message dated 5/1/01 8:26:11 AM, Colleen writes:

    Are fruit and vegetable seed edible? I heard that apple seeds have some type of poison in them, is this true?

    Dear Colleen,

    Most fruit and vegetable seeds are edible. Many of them contain a form of cyanide, like apricot seeds, prune seeds, even mung beans – and at least 800 others. But the poison from the cyanide molecule, according to researchers who have studied them, is not released in the body unless there is a need – such as cancer. If there is cancer, then according to Dr. Ernst Krebs, Jr., who has made nitrilosides his life’s study, the cyanide is released at the site of the cancer and kills it. That is what all the fuss about laetrile (vitamin B17) was about.

    Unfortunately this information has been suppressed and kept from the general public.

    But fortunately we can still get our seeds from fruits and vegetables grown from non hybridized and open pollinated seeds, and give our bodies the inhibitory factors necessary to protect us from cancer and other types of disease. Have you noticed that modern fruits, grown from hybridized seeds have had the seeds hybridized out of them? This is a loss for our health. All indigenous peoples (free from cancer and other diseases) eating their native diets, consumed seeds.

    For more information, please go to Links section of my website and press Dr. Krebs link under “Health Information”. That will take you to a site that will answer all your questions. My website is: www.rawfoodinfo.com

    In service for raw truth,

    Rhio

  • Wow, you guys are no joke! I will test those waters soon.

    bmore..

  • Are most fruits now days hyrids? Its kind of depressing…I wonder how unsweet fruit used to be? Im mean not that I dont like sweet fruit, I do, but I was just wondering.

  • debbietookdebbietook Raw Master

    IMO (backed by my research) apple pips are fine, and can even be good for you (in moderation).

    See my blog article on ‘Do you Eat the Pips?’
    (www.debbietookrawforlife.blogspot.com).

  • That is interesting about the apricot and prune seeds and cancer. However, they are so large one would not ordinarily be eating those anyway. If you put it in the blender it seems it would release the cyanide on its own and be dangerous. Does apple seeds contain that too or is that a different toxin?
    Marcy

  • germin8germin8 Raw Master

    (I haven’t read all the posts, but) If you’re eating all that fiber… it’s probably a good idea to drink plenty of water too.

  • SamiliciousSamilicious Raw Newbie

    What about ginger peel (organic of course)? Does it have a different taste?

    Hmm…what other skins of raw fruits or veggies are there that are unknowningly edible? I’ve recently threw in a whole lemon in my blender to make a smoothie and the peel made it soo bitter! Yikes.

  • kundalalitakundalalita Raw Newbie

    i’m sure fruit does ‘want’ its seeds to be eaten, but swallowed whole, not chewed! in the wild the baby seed gets deposited in the cradle of rich fertilizer that is the animal’s feces presumably much further away from the parent plant which increases the plants chance of spreading and reproducing.

    i’ll never forget when i was at a restaurant when i was about 7 yrs old and i saw an older man eating an orange with the peel and he was talking to the man across from him, he said “I know its bitter, but the rinds are where all the nutrients are, all the good stuff is in the rinds” (MUNCH) I thought it was curious and kinda gross but stuck to the spaghetti i was eating… little did i know i would adapt what he was doing in place of what i was years later!

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