These Fruits and Vegetables Have the Best (and Worst) Edible Yield

When you're paying for an item by weight, in culinary math terms the yield, or "edible portion" of a given item factors into its actual cost, which is necessary for chefs to consider when accounting for how to price a dish. In short, some types of produce are a better deal, ounce for ounce, than others. Does that mean you should be calculating every element that goes into your home-cooked meals? Probably not. (Or rather, hopefully not? Given the state of the economy and the price of eggs, some of us might have to.) But culinary math can help determine what you're actually spending in the produce aisle versus what you're potentially wasting. Whether you're about saving pennies or saving the environment by considering food waste (or you'd like to do both), there are food items that have a lower value considering how much of them you can consume. Calculating value based on edible yield of fruits and vegetables Fruits and vegetables offer starkly different overall value when edible yie ... Read full article.