Fruit and vegetables are beautifully wrapped by nature, but not to delight your eye. Skin, shells and peel serve to protect fruit and vegetables from external attack. They are, therefore, stuffed with nutrients, vitamins and minerals that ward off a plant’s enemy. Many nutrients in the peel, however, can also protect you and your health – often better than the flesh itself.
In Thailand, for example, researchers have studied 28 fruits and found that, with very few exceptions, they were all healthier on the outside than inside. Among other things, research has shown that a thin kiwi peel contains three times as much antioxidant as the pulp itself, and according to new research from Cornell University in New York, apple peel can halve the growth rate of intestinal cancer cells…
