Eating Fruit Skins

On Eating Fruit Skins

This summer, I learned that one can eat a whole apple. Every part of the apple is edible. Before learning this, I would just eat the flesh and throw away the core. The core seemed hard and jagged and inedible. Turns out, you can eat the whole thing. I suppose I’ve always known that deer eat the whole apple. Why shouldn’t people eat the whole apple too?

I tried it out a few times but initially hesitated to eat the stem. Once, I even ate everything but the stem and carried it around for a while. After a while I started to feel silly, carrying a little stem, and decided to eat the stem too. Indeed, the stem is edible too.

A few years back, I learned that one should eat the stems of strawberries. In my community, they’re considered medicine. A vital part of the fruit. When I started to ask around about this sort of thing, I learned that kiwi skins are also edible.

Published: Aug 30, 2026 @ 15:32.

Last Modified: Aug 31, 2026 @ 20:51.