Are you letting the best health foods escape you? Did you know that there is more vitamin C in white part of the skin of oranges than in the rest of the orange?
Whole Fresh Fruits – the valuable pectin fibre is found in the skin and pulp. Figs, prunes and raspberries have the highest fibre content.
Apples
Almost half of the vitamin C content is just underneath the skin. Eating the skin also increases insoluble fiber content.
In the past, apple skins were discarded in food products such as juices because the flavanoids in the skin caused cloudiness in the juice. Now it is known that the flavanoids are powerful cancer fighters and support the heart and liver.
Blueberries
The blue in blueberries comes from the anthocyanin pigment. In the North American blueberry, the pigment is only found in the skin. Unripe berries with a thick skin contain the highest concentrations of pectin.
Kiwi fruit rival bananas in potassium, pound for pound. And flavonoid antioxidants abound in the skin, which is edible but best if you rub the fuzzy stuff off first.
Carrot
Don’t peel them if you want to maintain their spectacular...
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