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Eating Fruit Skins
- ksudb 6d ago[dead]
- cush 5d agoPeople throw away so much strawberry in an effort to cut the leaves off. Just eat the leaves. Next time you go to eat a strawberry, try eating the leaves too - they're very mild in flavor, and you waste no strawberry!
- busymom0 5d agoI just hold it by the leaves in my fingers and take a huge bite of the entire berry with my teeth ending right before the leaves.
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- sho_hn 5d agoI just rip the leaves off, which is very easy with the variety we eat here. I never would have thought to cut them off. Are your two strawberries different?
- embedding-shape 5d agoSame, sometimes this lead to me eating a bit of the leaves, sometimes I leave a bit of strawberry, but no one died yet, so I continue :)
- Tade0 5d agoI started chewing the leaves. There's a hint of strawberry in them.
- modeless 5d agoIn at least some varieties of strawberries, the top of the berry has the least flavor and sweetness, and the bottom has the most, so I don't feel like I'm losing much.
- embedding-shape 5d agoMost mass-produced strawberries people eat today are basically white on the inside and relatively flavorless to the real thing anyway, I don't think most people miss out if they eat or not the top of the berry.
- PeterStuer 4d agoOnly in America.
- kzrdude 4d agoNot only in America
- downrightmike 5d agoWhite part under them tastes like nothing
- cush 4d agoYeah I don’t buy strawberries if they have a white top
- pragmatic 5d agoYes, that’s where the pesticide are. Can’t get enough pesticides.
- PeterStuer 4d agoYou pince of the leaves. Where do you imagine the waste?
- herbst 3d agoWhen I stopped smoking strawberry leafs where one recommended component of tobacco replacement. It does smoke well, and also makes a great component to tea. Never eaten it fresh tho.
- bobbiechen 5d agoI do like to save watermelon rinds and cook them into soup. Anyone have a use for banana peels?
- EvanAnderson 5d agoThanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Neat. We throw away a butt-ton of watermelon rind in the summer. I never thought to see if they could be used for something.
- el_benhameen 5d agoNow that is actually novel! To me, at least. You cook them into a regular soup as an additive? Or you make watermelon rind soup? How’s it taste?
- bobbiechen 5d agoIt's a variant of a Chinese wintermelon soup like https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-melon-soup-pork-ribs/ https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-melon-soup-pork-ribs/ ! It's a great sponge for the soup flavors.
- werdnapk 5d agoBanana peel oleo saccharum... you can add it to drinks and cocktails for a punch of banana.
- VyseofArcadia 5d agoYes, British TV chef Nigella Lawson cooks with them. https://youtu.be/kOF0Id92XRY?is=YOb6iPmPaMBeHLkJ https://youtu.be/kOF0Id92XRY?is=YOb6iPmPaMBeHLkJ
- downrightmike 5d agoThrow them in with the banana in the blender
- asdfqwertzxcv 4d agoI like turning the rind into pickles. Very good! For banana skins, you can turn them into a vegan bacon. Many recipes online that are all pretty much the same result. I like them too.
- intrasight 5d agoI eat the apple skin (of most apples) but I do not eat the core.
- EvanAnderson 5d agoI 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 realized how dirty apples are. I assumed the washing they get in processing gets them pretty clean. It does not. I wet them and clean the stem and flower areas with a paper towel. I'm shocked at how dirty the towel ends up. I'm a sweet apple kind of guy. Envy apples are the bomb. I used to like Honeycrisp but the rumors of their being bred into shitty tastelessness are true. They're terrible. Shockingly, sometimes Red Delicious, which I'd previously relegated to the "buy as a last resort" list, are actually pretty good now. Fuji, Gala, and Cosmic Crisp are all decent specimens. My wife likes Pink Lady but I think they're just a little too tart. She can also put away the Granny Smiths which I find to be horrifyingly sour. Ick! Anybody have feelings about other apple varieties a person like me might be into?
- motionlessveloc 5d agoAll mushrooms are edible, but some mushrooms are edible only once.
- monkpit 5d agoThere are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
- EvanAnderson 5d agoPoint taken. I don't eat mushrooms-- can't stand the texture. I heard a podcast episode re: death cap mushrooms and it was chilling. A guy in the podcast talked about tasting a death cap then spitting it out and rinsing his mouth. He said they had a good taste. Absolutely horrifying.
- ta988 5d ago
- motionlessveloc 5d agoGrapes are commonly peeled in Japan, and people will look at you strangely if you eat them skin on. However, Japanese grapes are huge and have a thick, astringent skin that peels off easily. Likewise, when Japanese people go overseas and start peeling grapes, people look at them strangely. Eventually they figure out that Western grapes are small, hard to peel and the skins are thin and nearly tasteless, so they adopt our barbarian habits too. Updated to add: Japanese grapes like Kyoho are actually hybrid cultivars of Western grapes (Vitis vinifera) and Concord grapes (Vitis labrusca), which is why they're so different.
- Tade0 5d agoMy dad would peel the skin of every fruit, including grapes, which is how I learned to do it.
- embedding-shape 5d agoAre you/your dad Japanese? I feel like we're missing most of the context here.
- Flere-Imsaho 4d agoSkin on fruit is full of fiber, along with potatoes, etc. I only ever take the skin off things if it really bothers me.
- gambiting 4d agoMy mum peels button mushrooms, never realized it was weird and no one does this until I was an adult.
- sho_hn 5d agoI've had this conversation and the way I explained it is that our grapes are closer to the boba in bubble tea. It's not quite right (they don't pop quite as much) and boba isn't Japanese, but it gets the point across.
- bbg2401 5d ago
- sho_hn 5d agoWhen 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 somehow unpleasant because everyone seems to peel or spoon them.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5d agoI like that you can take a bite directly through a kiwi
- downrightmike 5d agoBig grape.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5d agoA gooseberry, in fact.
- kwarcode 5d ago[dead]
- kelipso 5d agoHaha literally ate kiwi with skin on for the first time today. It’s a lot nicer, you just rinse it and eat it!
- jdkoeck 5d agoMy favorite thing is leaving the skin and slicing them. Each slice has the perfect amount of skin and pulp, it’s crunchy, it’s heaven!
- honr 5d agoI have never had a problem with kiwi skins (except when the kiwi is unripe; a natural mat with acids and possibly oxalate. NOPE). But are you claiming you eat the whole fruit, or you throw out the tiny thorn?
- sandesh247 5d agoEating an apple the right way: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42b8Zah8-jM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42b8Zah8-jM
- tiahura 5d agoMango skin, leaves, and sap contain compounds related to urushiol, the allergen in poison ivy.
- embedding-shape 5d agoHuh, that's neat, so get used to eating mango skin, and eventually you can eat poison ivy? Kind of handy, thanks!
- kaycebasques 5d agoI 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.
- adzm 4d agoOne time I decided to slice up a mango like a melon and just eat the flesh off the skin. A bit later I realized I had an awful itchy rash all around my mouth. That's when I learned about urushiol in mango skin! Would not recommend
- antics9 4d agoA guy I was hanging around with in India (Himalayas) asked me why I was peeling the mango. He said you should eat it with the skin. So I continued doing that. One day, at the top of one mountain, I sat down to eat my mango. This Indian guy with his girlfriend walked by and asked why the hell I was eating the mango with the skin on.
- niemandhier 5d agoIf you eat enough kiwis with skin, tarantula abdomens start to look like something tasty. I read that online, I trained myself to eat whole Kiwis and lo and behold: It is true! Our brains are so wonderfully strange!
- card_zero 4d agoPossibly not an illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food
- vorticalbox 4d agoThat was interesting other than the golden orb weaver, all the other spider species noted as edible are tarantula. I assume because of their size relative to other species?
- nkrisc 4d agoPeople in the Amazon do eat tarantulas. They do roast them over an open flame first though to burn off the hairs as they can be harmful and irritating.
- theo1996 3d agohello redd*t
- dbacar 5d agoLooking at the pesticide scores, one should not eat any fruit/vegetable without peeling if it has any.
- bossyTeacher 5d agoThat 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).
- sho_hn 5d agoIn 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.
- loco5niner 5d agoBut peanuts and white rice, the most common ones have already been 'peeled'
- hackernud3s 4d agoYou need to rinse rice though, a lot of people don't realize that.
- someguynamedq 3d agoYou don't "need" to. It just achieved a culinary effect
- herbst 3d agoYou do that to get the starch out and get a better result don't you? That's what I rinse my rise for at least
- brnt 5d agoUnfortunately a lot leaks in. Grapeskins are particularly porous for instance. So are most of the dirty dozen iirc. Skins are healthy, but only if organic and/or clean fifteen.
- busymom0 5d agoOn a related note, a friend of mine removed both the skin and even the center core (the seeds part) of cucumbers. I think all that's left is about 30% of the cucumber. I found that truly bizarre. Her reasoning was that it was too watery (???)
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- russdill 4d agoIt's very common to use a peeler to peel the skin, then keep peeling until you get to the seeds and just use those peeled strips.
- svl7 4d agoTo be fair there are some sorts where the seeds can be overwhelming, but that's not what you usually get in the supermarket. In cucumbers you can normally buy removing the seeds/ watery core in my opinion only makes sense when you for example make Tzatziki, as otherwise it can get rather watery.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5d agoYou can eat whole boiled eggs too. Shell and all.
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- lsch1033 5d agoWell certainly not for every fruit... especially after you learn that durian is an edible fruit
- pragmatic 5d agohttps://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you Also, don’t feed them to dogs especially small dogs. Highly unlikely to be a problem but people die from water poisoning so…
- dempedempe 4d agoI've eaten the peel on a pineapple before. Not so bad actually. I thought eating the skins on kiwis was normal
- bastawhiz 4d ago> Alex rightly points out that apple seeds do contain cyanide. Turns out, it’s not a huge risk for normal apple consumption. You don't have to eat them. There's no benefit to eating them. They don't taste good. They provide a negligible amount of nutrition, if any, and harm you very mildly. The stem of an apple is edible, but for what? A gram of extra fiber after you manage to gnaw through it? You can eat banana peels, but you probably wouldn't want to. It's a terrible texture and flavor. They decompose well, so there's no meaningful environmental benefit. Yes, they have nutrients. You can eat a second piece of fruit instead. And this is not universally good advice. The seeds, leaves, and stem of the pawpaw is filled with toxins—enough that folks have died from it. I don't think the author is trying to make a point, but rather to show that we do things because we were told them. But it's important to also realize that the cultural reasons are sometimes backed up with hard-earned lessons or to save us from having to learn for ourselves that watermelon rind isn't pleasant to eat without preparing it in other ways.
- PeterStuer 4d agoMost of the insecticide sprays are on the skin. You can eat the seeds, maybe don't bite them as they taste nasty. Eating the core is not the most pleasant part, and the top and bottom might be be most difficult to rinse the sprays from.
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- wdrw 4d agoAs a person who always eats the whole apple, stem and all (have done so for years), I'll object to your "apple seeds do not taste good" statement - tastes differ, to me they are delicious, certainly on par with other "normally edible" seeds like sunflower seeds! Of course I wouldn't eat them in any great quantity because of the poison issue.
- johnnyApplePRNG 4d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning#Chronic_exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning#Chronic_expo...
- martythemaniak 4d agoWell, they're all editable, only question is if you like it and if the fruit skinn itself is good. I eat most kiwis with the skin on because it's a nice tart/acidic contrast to soft sweet insides, but some kiwis have extremely thick and acidic. Most pear cores are soft and sweet, but very few apple cores, nor worth it.
- RALaBarge 4d agoI ate Kiwis for years before someone told me most people DO NOT eat the skins. I looked at my bag of kiwis, and the even the damn monkey mascot was holding a spoon...mocking me...
- nkrisc 4d agoDon’t worry, my kids eat the skin too. I guess we forgot to tell them not to and they didn’t find it unpleasant. I tried a bite for my own edification and I did not find it pleasant. That said, I usually eat peanuts with the shell and all. Though don’t eat too many that way, the shells are definitely not getting digested, so chew well. Also there is probably a higher chance of dirt or other stuff you don’t want to eat being on the shell, but I don’t usually eat peanuts anyway so never been a problem for me.
- Modified3019 4d agoWhen I wash kiwis I rub the hairs off, and then cut them into thick slices, leaving the skin on. Trying to skin or eat them with a spoon is just a pain, and I don’t find the skin unpleasant. I’ve seen a lot of people also just wash/rub the hairs off and bite straight into them, though I find this can make a mess if they are too soft. Hardy kiwis are also eaten whole, like a berry.
- devindotcom 4d agoyeah, I do this too. minimize the fuzz and the skin itself improves the overall flavor in my opinion.
- RyJones 4d agoI eat the whole orange, grapefruit, lemon or lime. I like the bitter to offset the sweetness.
- PeterStuer 4d agoUmless specifically indicated as untreated, citrus peel in soaked in very nasty antifungal waxes. In the EU they are specifucally warned about not fit for consumption.
- hn_throwaway_99 4d agoAt least now I know psychopaths walk among us.
- t-3 4d agoCitrus peels taste good. They're used for cooking in every culture that grows citrus. Eating them raw is only bad due to farmers poisoning the food they sell.
- hn_throwaway_99 4d agoI was joking, but there is a huge difference between using citrus zest/rind in cooking or as a garnish and eating the whole thing like an apple, including the pith.
- t-3 4d agoI've never eaten citrus like an apple except when at a restaurant and they give slices of lemon or lime - I eat those whole. I usually eat the fruit first, then the peel. The bitterness of the pith is not noticeable at all when eaten like this.
- jihadjihad 4d agoMy condolences to your tooth enamel.
- rsktaker 4d agoGolden kiwis + skin = my favorite fruit-experience OAT
- fitsumbelay 4d agogood post. much appreciated
- mint5 4d agoCherimoya skins regularly consumed cause Parkinson’s like symptoms. Some fruit skins are okay, others are not. And some are only okay if home grown or organic bc the skin is otherwise loaded with pesticide residues
- herbst 3d agoOrganic doesn’t mean pesticide-free or non-toxic. Organic farming can use pesticides such as copper compounds, pyrethrins and spinosad, all of which have their own toxicity and environmental risks
- 0x457 4d agoI almost always eat citrus skins after eat the citrus. With Pomelos its like second breakfast.
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- jeltz 4d agoI eat whole cherries, I am too lazy to spit out the pits do I swallow them whole. So far it has not been any issue at all and I eat a lot of cherries.
- globular-toast 4d agoThis is quite funny timing as just a few days ago my partner, who eats kiwis almost every day, tried eating the whole kiwi. She used to scoop it out but now says she'll never go back. It's also way more convenient as there are no tools required.
- dvh 4d agoI had a college who would meticulously cut that black thing at the bottom of the apple and also quite a bit of actual apple flesh, like 1cm or even more around it. When I asked him why he cut so much, he said that the black thing is remnant of apple flower and when apple tree is in the bloom it is the most sensitive so they apply most pesticides then and the concentration is highest around that black part. By cutting it away with little bit of flesh he removes most of the pesticides that are in the apple. It didn't help, few years later he died of cancer.
- CGMthrowaway 4d agoLots of fruit skins are very edible (kiwis etc.), but they are covered with pesticides. All conventional fruits are. If you look at the "Dirty Dozen" vs. "Clean Fifteen" lists of fruits/veggies that come out every year, you'll notice that the cleanest fruits are almost always ones that grow with a thick skin or covering, or are covered by soil: banana, pineapple, avocado, corn, (shelled) peas, watermelon, carrot, potato, etc. And the dirtiest ones have a thin or no skin: greens, stone fruit, blackberries, strawberries, apples, pears etc. The clean fruits aren't really any cleaner, the study just tests the "edible" part minus the outer skin. If you eat the skin of conventional Clean Fifteen, you might as well be eating a Dirty Dozen.
- mstaoru 4d agoGotta love my durian skins. If not I'll settle for rambutans.
- phyzome 4d agoIf you're going to eat an apple this way, some notes: - Start from the blossom end (the bottom). This makes the core more palatable for multiple reasons. - The blossom remains themselves may have mold in very rare cases. Take a look before you start eating. - Some apples have much, much harder core walls and are not really edible this way. Others are quite soft. So it will depend on variety. - Don't bother eating the stems and seeds. It's pointless. I really only do this when I don't have a place to put the apple core, e.g. on a road trip if I don't have a trash/compost bag. (Can't throw it out the window because it will attract wildlife to the roadside.)
- GlenTheMachine 4d agoI mean, deer (and cows and goats and sheep, but not horses) are ruminants. They can eat all sorts of things humans can’t digest: grass, tree leaves, most weeds, etc). The evolution of the rumen was one of nature’s best tricks.
- chabes 4d agoGrass fiber isn’t digestible by humans, but the rest is. Juice, roots, flowers, seeds
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- hdrz 4d agoI always eat the whole thing, especially an apple, skin seeds and all. It’s natural to me. Also kiwi with it’s skin. I only peel mango, it’s skin is not tasty…
- almog 4d agoI can't name them, but some mango cultivars have very palatable skin. Even on ones where the skin is a bit bitter, it gets much better when the fruit is ripe.
- Nouridin 4d agoapple skins are so good and necessary actually and i think they add most of the taste
- traceroute66 4d agoYeah, erm. You should only ever eat fruit skins if the fruit is organic and the skin is clean. At this point I think its safe to say there are hundreds of scientific studies out there telling you why. This is one example[1]. I quote from their abstract: Notably, the distribution of pesticides in the apple peel and pulp layers is visualized through Raman imaging, confirming that the pesticides penetrate the peel layer into the pulp layer (∼30 μm depth). Thus, the risk of pesticide ingestion from fruits cannot be avoided by simple washing other than peeling. [1] https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01513 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01513
- Dan_- 4d agoThe two fungicides they tested aren’t in common use in US orchards. One is no longer approved at all. Anyway, it would be interesting to test the currently actually used fungicides.
- traceroute66 3d agoI very much doubt the problem magically disappears with "newer" pesticides. Afterall, if a pesticide washed off in the rain, it wouldn't be much good as a pesticide .... it would be a very expensive proposition for the farmer to re-apply after each rainfall.
- dash2 4d agoThis reminds me of the Craig Brown parody of Tony Benn's diary: "eat a banana, first being careful to discard the fleshy part inside".
- almog 4d agoNot far from where I live, there are plenty of strawberry fields where I go outside to run. Over the years I found that every year, they'd throw huge amount of perfectly edible fruit in big piles at the edges of the field. Last spring I started collecting them in 5 gallon pails. The plan was to use them for Jam. Being quite lazy, I figured it'd be too much of an effort for me to cut the leaves. I wasn't sure what to expect but I love the result, the leaves added some really nice texture and offered no offending flavor that I could detect.
- snmx999 4d agoI would find out the reason they throw the fruit away before eating them.
- scentoni 4d agoThis way lies dendrophagy https://youtube.com/shorts/MzQ0Tjskpyo?is=NKTwdWN6I-c48gD8 https://youtube.com/shorts/MzQ0Tjskpyo?is=NKTwdWN6I-c48gD8
- DanielVZ 4d ago[dead]
- xg15 4d agoI think this is a new pattern (which I have also seen in some other submissions), maybe a sort of "extended Chesterton's Fence", where a person dutifully maintains a fence without ever asking why it's there, then at some point realizes they have no idea if that fence is even needed - and then promptly rip it out, in the belief that it must have been unnecessary the whole time, while still not asking anyone if that's actually the case.
- Dove 4d agoIn broad strokes, the skins of things are high in nutrients, medicines, fiber, and toxins - natural, agricultral, and environmental. The degree to which each of these things is true depends very much on what specifically you are trying to eat, where it comes from, and sometimes its condition. It is easy to forget, but plants aren't inherently safe. Produce has been made so by breeding, historical wisdom, and by laws and customs and systems. While some of these things are overcautious or corrupt, others may be keeping you safe without you realizing it. Eating things you aren't expected to eat is playing with the safeties off, to some degree. I wouldn't think you'd get into too much trouble eating the skins of things you'd find in the grocery store, but green potatoes would certainly be an exception. I'd mostly want to wash a akin I intended to eat very well, as I'd mostly worry what might have been sprayed on that part on the assumption I wouldn't eat it. The further you get away from expectation - stems, seeds, leaves - the further you are from built in safety measures and the closer you are to eating a random plant. Even knowing that people consider something medicine is not a free pass. Medicines come with dosages and side effects. Drugs powerful enough to help you are usually also poweful enough to hurt you, and this is often similarly true with plants. All of that is not exactly to dissuade you from trying things, and toxic bits of things are usually obvious and not too dangerous in small quantities. Still, it's worth starting small and doing the odd search first. You never know when a particular breed of apple, grown under particular conditions, will have unusually potent seeds, and you want to have some understanding of how quickly certain toxins accumulate and clear. We do have a lot of accumulated knowledge on food safety, and it is worth consulting if you are going to step off the usual path. On the other hand, lots of things known to be beneficial and safe are considered unpalatable due to being rough and unsweet, but you can certainly develop a taste for them. Wheat bran and potato skins are among my favorites.
- dunham 4d agoYeah when I'll make mashed potatoes, I mix pieces of peeled russets (which have a smoother texture) and red potatoes with the skin on. I like the taste of red potatoes and it gives the purée a rustic texture. When I peel russets, I usually fry the skins. On the not safe front, I recently learned that volunteer squash can be very bad for you - I guess the poisonous varieties are genetically close to the edible ones. Oh and my grandfather foraged and ate Gyromitra esculenta mushrooms. (I've eaten them as a child, I would not eat them now.) They are very bad news. The way he processed them made them safe. But he said he soaked them in salted water to "get the bugs out" - he did not know they were toxic.
- QuantumNoodle 4d agoWait until you hear about eating the skin of a kiwi, like an apple.
- whyenot 4d agoAs Alex noted, apple seeds contain cyanide, or to be more accurate, cyanogenic glycosides. When the tissue of most apple seeds is damaged, an enzyme cleaves the sugar-cyanide bond, releasing hydrogen cyanide gas. You can test this yourself, by crushing some apple seeds and smelling the mashed seeds. It will smell of almonds, which is the smell of hydrogen cyanide gas. I created a lab for intro biology around testing for HCN in various plant tissues. The interesting thing is not all apple seeds actually seem to produce HCN. Granny Smith seeds seem to always produce it (and relatively speaking a lot), while some little lunch box sized Fuji apples I bought at a farmers market don't produce any at all.
- next_xibalba 4d ago> In my community, [strawberry leaves are] considered medicine Huh? What does this mean? Isn't this a binary? Either they are or are not medicine. I don't "consider" Tylenol a medicine. It is because it has an effect.
- msephton 4d agoI assume the writer is happy to speak for their own community but, quite wisely, unwilling to make unfounded claims about all other communities. But, yes, the strawberry is medicinal—everywhere.
- MathMonkeyMan 3d agoMy dad said that he older he gets, the more of the apple he eats.
- theo1996 3d agobecause the skin absorbs all the dirt,chemicals,bacteria and toxins, thats why you shouldnt eat everything but the inside same goes for vegetables.Indian tier mentality here....a huge hazard to public health.