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"biggest fibre boost could be scraps in your bin" - BBC news

Marianne72

The latest health research fad recommends eating fruit and vegetable skins you would normally discard.  In the mode of meat-eaters who eat 'nose to tail', experts are recommending you eat fruit and veg 'root to tip' because of the fibre they contain. This includes peels from bananas, pineapple, lemons, kiwi fruits and melons.

I can't imagine doing this, especially pineapples. I suppose you could make them into 'smoothies' but this doesn't appeal [forgive the pun!]. What do you think? Could you bear chewing these things, to gain more fibre? Frankly, I would rather eat more bran. As to pineapples, what's left of my teeth would crumbleConfounded. I would love to see the person who 'discovered' this sit at table, in public, and prove their words!

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  • There are no peels/skins in my bin, because we don't eat fresh fruit or veg. I only buy fruit pots, muesli with dried fruit in, frozen green beans, parsnips or petit pois, tinned baby carrots and Apple sauce.

    I get enough fibre from eating those foods, plus wholemeal bread and baked beans. I also eat dark chocolate,  which some people may be surprised to hear has more fibre per 100g than fresh apples.

    I definitely would not want to eat banana or pineapple skins Stuck out tongue closed eyes

    Plus, making the skins into smoothies would destroy much of the fibre I believe.

    Oh, I just remembered a joke by Harry Hill that this reminds me of - he said that when he was growing up he was told that the best part of a lolly was the stick!

  • in reply to Lotus
    Lotus said:
    he was told that the best part of a lolly was the stick!

    Probably true - but I enjoy a lolly too. Very refreshing in hot weather, especially if you make them yourself from fruit or a cordial. I remember a TV chef saying that many people over boil veg and they would be better of discarding the veg and drinking the broth. That is probably true as well. 

    I'm not surprised at your fruit eating method. Most of the fruit these days is either vastly under ripe or on the verge of rotting. I buy things like plums to enjoy later in the week but they never seem to ripen. And a lot of it is low in flavour. Perhaps it's another childhood vision of everything being tastier decades ago.

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  • in reply to Lotus
    Lotus said:
    he was told that the best part of a lolly was the stick!

    Probably true - but I enjoy a lolly too. Very refreshing in hot weather, especially if you make them yourself from fruit or a cordial. I remember a TV chef saying that many people over boil veg and they would be better of discarding the veg and drinking the broth. That is probably true as well. 

    I'm not surprised at your fruit eating method. Most of the fruit these days is either vastly under ripe or on the verge of rotting. I buy things like plums to enjoy later in the week but they never seem to ripen. And a lot of it is low in flavour. Perhaps it's another childhood vision of everything being tastier decades ago.

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