What's the best way to eat fruit? Removing the skin (I'm referring to fruits like apples and pears here, not like oranges and bananas) or leaving it on?
I've heard people say that the skin contains most the vitamins and antioxidants, however I've also heard people say that you can't remove all the pesticides they spray the plants with by just washing it with water, so you're better of peeling the fruit...
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Thread: Fruit: To peel or not to peel?
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10-24-2006, 03:16 AM #1Audere est Facere
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Fruit: To peel or not to peel?
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10-24-2006, 04:00 AM #2Shine on
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hmm Ive always heard that the skin contains most of the nutrients so I always just keep it on...Originally Posted by ravadongonyou can boast about anything if it?s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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10-24-2006, 04:04 AM #3Registered User
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most fruit skins are not digested.. its mainly fiber (apples)
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10-24-2006, 04:20 AM #4Girl
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Yeap a lot of fiber and a lot of nutritions => not to peel!
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10-24-2006, 04:27 AM #5Registered User
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wash and DONT peel my friend..
fiber is one of the most important things in fruit. dont miss out!
fiber is soooo important, one time i couldnt decide whether or not to peel a fruit (peach, i didnt know if it was eaten peeled or not) that i just ate the whole thing anyway. haha
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10-24-2006, 05:00 AM #6Registered User
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I use a little dishsoap to clean my apples before eating them. I always eat the skin.
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10-24-2006, 06:49 AM #7ProWrestling Consumes Me!
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dont peel it off
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10-24-2006, 12:53 PM #8nevigsawkufelgnisaton
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Apples : EAT THE SKIN
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...ighlight=apple
http://www.applepolyphenols.com/studies/varieties.htm
http://onhealth.webmd.com/script/mai...ticlekey=56165
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There wasn't a bad apple in the bunch, and the peels had many more antioxidants than the flesh. Here are the rankings for flesh phenol content:
Red Delicious
Northern Spy
Ida Red
Cortland
McIntosh
Golden Delicious
Mutsu
Empire
Red Delicious apples had more than twice as many polyphenols as Empire apples, the study shows.
What about Gala, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Jonagold, Fuji, and other apple varieties? They weren't in the running. Tsao's team studied apples that are popular in Canada, not the U.S. All of the apples came from the same farm and were grown under the same conditions.
From the Winter 2003 New York Fruit Quarterly ...
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/fq/
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/f...03/NYFQW04.pdf
A wide range in antioxidant content among different apple cultivars has also been found (Boyer and Liu, 2003/04). Fuji had the highest level of flavonoids, followed by Delicious, Northern Spy, Fortune, Gala, Liberty, Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, Jonagold, Idared, Cortland, and Empire in decreasing order. Fuji also had the highest level of phenolics, followed by Delicious, Gala, Liberty, Northern Spy, Golden Delicious, Rome Beauty, Fortune, Jonagold, Idared, Cortland, and Empire in decreasing order. Similarly, MacLean, Murr, and DeEll (2003) showed that the antioxidant capacity of Empire was half that of Delicious apples.
Lee, Rupasinghe, and Jackson (2004) investigated the major phenolic profiles of eight Ontario-grown apple cultivars and found that the total antioxidant capacity, total phenols content, and flavonoids levels were the highest in Honeycrisp and Delicious, moderate in Idared, Spartan, Granny Smith, and Cortland, and the lowest in Crispin and Empire. Furthermore, apple peel contained 2 to 10-fold higher levels than the core and flesh tissue.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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10-24-2006, 12:59 PM #9Survivor of Breast Cancer
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When I went to the doctor and he give me what I could eat to get more fiber he told me to eat apples with out the peel.
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10-24-2006, 01:30 PM #10Registered User
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I know that the skin has more fiber but I honestly can't see myself not peeling an orange or banana. I eat apples and kiwis with the skin on. Good stuff. Mark
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10-24-2006, 01:35 PM #11TGIF~ Thank God Im Female
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don't peel
I play the game. I Play it Smart my energy comz from da Heart I use my head I move my Feet dont mess w/ me I'm 1OO% AThlete!
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10-24-2006, 01:42 PM #12
The skin contains a lot of fiber. It will keep you regular and slow the digestion of the fruit. I imagine that the more color and the brighter the skin is, the more nutrients it contains. I would eat it if I were you!
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10-24-2006, 01:53 PM #13Registered User
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Your doctor is an idiot. The fiber is in the peel, you definately want to eat it.Originally Posted by karriegBSc in Exercise Science
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10-24-2006, 01:56 PM #14
whats this guy talking about? who peels the skin off oranges?
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10-24-2006, 03:11 PM #15Registered User
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I like to peel apples but nothing else
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