If you eat apples you could be wasting 30%

br3adman
br3adman Posts: 284 Member
edited November 19 in Food and Nutrition
Did you know you can eat the entire apple? The only part not edible is the seed. Its no such thing as an apple core you can eat it. If each of us eats an apple a day, as we all do, and we are all wasting 30 percent of our apples at $1.30 per pound, that's about $42 wasted per person per year—which is $13.2 billion annually, thrown in the trash. Its a video somewhere that shows how to eat an apple like a boss!
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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    edited June 2015
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    I think I wasted more time reading this than I waste eating apples incorrectly...
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,744 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.

    Word. The core is tough. No thanks.

    OP, can't you just add your apple cores to your compost pile / bin? Seems like a good way to avoid waste. Not to mock you. I'm sure you had good intentions.
  • CoffeeNBooze
    CoffeeNBooze Posts: 966 Member
    I have eaten some of the core on accident, and it's nasty. I'll pass
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.

    Cosigned
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?
  • joepratt503
    joepratt503 Posts: 191 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.
    roger that!

  • Sarasmaintaining
    Sarasmaintaining Posts: 1,027 Member
    edited June 2015
    br3adman wrote: »
    Did you know you can eat the entire apple? The only part not edible is the seed. Its no such thing as an apple core you can eat it. If each of us eats an apple a day, as we all do, and we are all wasting 30 percent of our apples at $1.30 per pound, that's about $42 wasted per person per year—which is $13.2 billion annually, thrown in the trash. Its a video somewhere that shows how to eat an apple like a boss!

    Speak for yourself-I hate apples blech. And the thought of eating an apple core just made me gag a little :|
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    That's one HYOOOOOOOGE banana.


    :alleyoop:
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

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  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

    Maybe she lives in Disney World. Highway robbery to eat there.
  • kxbrown27
    kxbrown27 Posts: 769 Member
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.

    Word. The core is tough. No thanks.

    OP, can't you just add your apple cores to your compost pile / bin? Seems like a good way to avoid waste. Not to mock you. I'm sure you had good intentions.

    This.

    I compost all my fruit and vegetable cutoffs. I get a beautiful lawn out of it. And since I pay for trash removal by the can, I can save about $7.00/month. That's $84/year, so does this mean I actually make money by not eating the core?
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

    Maybe she lives in Disney World. Highway robbery to eat there.

    I live an hour + away and hate hate hate hate hate the mouse, so no
  • mistikal13
    mistikal13 Posts: 1,457 Member
    Pass
  • Momma_Raucks
    Momma_Raucks Posts: 69 Member
    kxbrown27 wrote: »
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.

    Word. The core is tough. No thanks.

    OP, can't you just add your apple cores to your compost pile / bin? Seems like a good way to avoid waste. Not to mock you. I'm sure you had good intentions.

    This.

    I compost all my fruit and vegetable cutoffs. I get a beautiful lawn out of it. And since I pay for trash removal by the can, I can save about $7.00/month. That's $84/year, so does this mean I actually make money by not eating the core?

    THIS!!! hahahahahahahahahahaha
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Do I look like Twilight Sparkle?
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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

    afd6ulnhz3gd.gif

    +1 to you for the Arrested Development reference

    -1 to me for missing it.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

    afd6ulnhz3gd.gif

    +1 to you for the Arrested Development reference

    -1 to me for missing it.

    It's okay, I suppose that's a reasonable price for people in Alaska or something
  • andympanda
    andympanda Posts: 763 Member
    OP, what;s your address, I will send you all y apple cores.
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  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Banana peels are also edible and can amount to 50% of a banana's weight. And what does a banana cost, $10? You're throwing away $5 every time you toss a banana peel.

    Where the crap are you buying bananas at $10 a pop?

    Bananas are a hot commodity. People be slippin' on them.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    The core tastes bitter and weird. No thanks.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    I have a friend who eats the entire apple and the entire orange - peel and all.

    I think it's disgusting.

    Then again, there are people in parts of the world who eat cockroaches. Maybe we should stop spraying our houses with pesticides to kill them and instead start trapping and eating them. Imagine the savings!
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    I'm content to let the apple core go to waste.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    chivalryder wrote: »
    I have a friend who eats the entire apple and the entire orange - peel and all.

    I think it's disgusting.

    Then again, there are people in parts of the world who eat cockroaches. Maybe we should stop spraying our houses with pesticides to kill them and instead start trapping and eating them. Imagine the savings!

    And the protein benefits!
  • abelizer408
    abelizer408 Posts: 2 Member
    I used to take pride in eating entire apples including seeds. didn't die of cyanide poisoning but stopped once I learned of that danger....
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's a loss I'm willing to assimilate into my budgetary constraints.

    werd...

    my cores also go into my compost.
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,255 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    chivalryder wrote: »
    I have a friend who eats the entire apple and the entire orange - peel and all.

    I think it's disgusting.

    Then again, there are people in parts of the world who eat cockroaches. Maybe we should stop spraying our houses with pesticides to kill them and instead start trapping and eating them. Imagine the savings!

    And the protein benefits!

    Ewwwwwww!
  • Erida_Zgjana
    Erida_Zgjana Posts: 6 Member
    If u eat just one or two not more .
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