DailyDirt: You're Eating That Fruit All Wrong…
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If there’s a way to eat something, there’s someone out there with a “right” way to eat it. Sometimes etiquette dictates how you should eat, but sometimes efficiency trumps the normal rules of society (don’t ask when). If you’re looking for more efficient ways to eat some common fruits, just check out these guides to eating apples, oranges and bananas.
- If you eat an apple by pulling out the stem and eating it top down, you’ll probably be able to eat the entire apple without really tasting the core. Of course, some joker is going to say that it’s better to eat it up from the bottom… [url]
- Do you hate cutting/peeling oranges? Can’t decide to make an equatorial or polar cut? Here’s your new method: slice a bit of the top and bottom off and then cut the peel so that it can unroll. The drawback is that you don’t end up with any pieces that you can readily use to make an orange-peel-teeth smile. [url]
- Most people peel a banana from the stem down, but did you know that monkeys peel bananas from the other end? Monkeys don’t care which end of the banana is the top. They just want to peel bananas in an easy way, instead of making a banana joystick with the stem and mashing the top of their bananas. [url]
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Filed Under: apple, banana, eating style, etiquette, food, fruit, how-to, kitchen techniques, orange, peels
Comments on “DailyDirt: You're Eating That Fruit All Wrong…”
Demonstration
I decided to test out the theory. Watch to the finish to hear my profound dialog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiePAIZTo3U
Re: Demonstration
You look tired.
On the Apple. Apples are one of the most pesticide laden fruits and the great concentrations are in the top/bottom. I don’t eat those parts at all.
On Banana peeling. WTF? Pulling the stem back is how I get started peeling it. How do you start it cleanly from the bottom?
Re: Banana peeling like a monkey
You pinch the other end and it practically peels itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng
Re: Re: Banana peeling like a monkey
Sounds painful.
Oh, wait, you’re talking about fruit. Never mind.
I usually eat apples the traditional way, although my “core” is usually quite small and is just the immediate area right around the seeds (which I always find in the center, not near the top).
When I get near the center, I always encounter some tough fibers, which have never been that appealing to me. Which is why I don’t eat the core of the apple.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pectin-from-Scratch/?ALLSTEPS
Apples good for jam.
Pectin has also other uses, anything a gelling agent can do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin
All those fruit peels you trow away actually have things in them.
After eating that banana you can use the peel to whiten your teeth 🙂
http://thesecretyumiverse.wonderhowto.com/how-to/10-weirdly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-banana-peels-0139201/
http://www.thankyourbody.com/31-ways-to-use-lemon-peel/?ModPagespeed=noscript
Yahoo Answers: What is the best method to extract oil from orange peels?
http://www.academia.edu/481793/Studies_of_Antimicrobial_activity_on_peel_extracts_from_different_Citrus_species
Apple seeds have been shown to contain arenic. Something most people want to avoid.
Apple eating
Couldn’t be more wrong. The problem with eating the core is not taste, it’s all those tough membranes and fibers. Eating an apple this way means that large portions of the good, fleshy parts of the apple are going to be contaminated with seeds, husks, and fibers. Sure, you can do it, but it makes the entire apple-eating experience worse.
Re: Waste of research
A lot of effort is being wasted, in time and money, trying to convince people to eat the core. I don’t quite get why. Yes, some people eat the core. My father, for one. Some people even enjoy eating the core.
But the people who don’t eat the core are not going to start just because research has shown it’s safe, harmless, and possible to do. We already knew the core was edible, we see other people do it. Heck, most of us even know that the core tastes just like the rest of the apple.
It’s the texture. I don’t like the texture of the core. At all.
Dunno...
I dunno why people eat bananas by breaking the stem instead of breaking the other end. Tradition probably. I suspect in some countries that are not the USA they eat it ‘the right way’