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Apple Nutrition with or without peeling.

reesegrace1
reesegrace1 Posts: 66 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have always heard that apples has most of their nutrition in the peeling. But i don't like to eat the peeling. What is your opinion on eating apples with or without peeling? Does the apple without peeling have any vitamins or nutrition in it? Will i be losing all the nutrition of i peel my apples?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,666 Member
    reesegrace1 wrote: »
    I have always heard that apples has most of their nutrition in the peeling. But i don't like to eat the peeling. What is your opinion on eating apples with or without peeling? Does the apple without peeling have any vitamins or nutrition in it? Will i be losing all the nutrition of i peel my apples?

    In the MFP food database, look up "apples, raw, with skin" (the green checked one that defaults to 1C slices quantity - that's the USDA entry), and "Apples, raw, without skin" (ditto).

    Compare.

    Yes, apples without skin contain good nutrition. With skin, they have a little more micronutrients (such as vitamin C and potassium). Even without skin, they have some reasonable micronutrients.

    If it were me, I'd eat them the way I enjoy them, and look at my overall average day to make sure I was getting adequate micronutrients from the totality of my foods, rather than worrying about a small individual difference (unless I had some serious health issue that required me to put major priority on a particular nutrient being at a maximum).
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