apple cores and other commonly discarded foods

Isn't it not healthy to eat apple cores because of the seeds?

I've reached a point in my life where I can't stand taking the little green things off strawberries at all. I eat the whole thing.

And I've been known to eat the entire apple before too.

I do throw out eggshells though.

I dont eat these things you talk of, but I do try to compost them to help feed my garden nutrients However you could boil some things down and make a broth. Search the web and I am sure you can find something that helps. Oh and you can eat the skin of the kiwi..my brother in law does. I myself woulf rather not, but thats just me. Good luck. Hope you find what you are looking for!

Apple core seeds contain cyanide. There is a documented case in Kingsbury's Poisonous Plants of North America (a key reference) of a man who liked apple seeds, saved himself a cup full, ate them and died.

The pits of common fruits are frequently poisonous, as are parts of the plant that we don't eat. Rhubarb leaves, for example. Again in Kingsbury, a documented case of a woman who fried some up, ate them and died. In the same category are the parts of the potato plant that are not tubers, and tomato plants.

IF you are going to eat like this, please research your plants to make sure that you are not ingesting something deadly.

http://books.google.ca/books/about/Poisonous_plants_of_the_United_States_an.html?id=-kNtAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

I just checked your profile and see that you are from Australia. Kingsbury would still be useful in checking out the parts of plants commonly eaten as food that are toxic. It is an exhaustive list of plants toxic to the Americas, but there are no doubt just as good references to Australian plants that you might be putting on your plate.

My husband told me yesterday that Apple Seeds contain Cyanide. Snopes said it was true. http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp.

yep i agree with the above and stay away from the apple core and possibly other cores.

you can use citrus peels like lemon, lime, grape fruit peal the fruit off and shove them in a container of white vinegar and then shake the container every day for a few weeks until the container smells more the fruits you put in it than vinegar You can use it to clean diluted with water or full strenth as a laundry softener.

Some of the stuff I compost, others I use for veggie stock.

I feed these things to my chickens. They eat most of it, the rest they scratch into lovely compost which I use on my garden. Then they produce lovely eggs with dark orange yolks, the shells of which I will grind up and feed back to them as calcium supplementation. We also do the vinegar citrus cleaner.

Recently I realised how much food we waste on a daily basis that is not only edible but adds another dimension of flavour/texture/nutrition to food.

I'm talking things like the core of apples, pears, and pineapples, greens on strawberries, skins on kiwi fruit, the leaves on celery, zuchninni ends etc.

Wondering if anyone else can give me ideas of what 'discarded' foods they eat so I can expand my selection!

This is what a compost box is for.........

You would have to eat a ton of apple seeds to poison yourself.

Cauliflower leaves are totally edible: http://www.pennilessparenting.com/2012/05/cauliflower-leaf-pakoras-recipe-indian.html?m=1

If you don't want to batter and fry, try slicing the tough ribs out and just sautéing with garlic

Compost shmompost, I want my tasty tasty refuse.

Go ahead and be my guest...........I will continue composting to feed my garden.

I compost it or give it to my chickens. I can blend the cores into my smoothies but I have found the seeds can leave a bitter after taste. It's not good to get too many apple seeds because they contain cyanide. In small doses your body can break it down no problem but it's not something you're going to want to consume regularly.

I have five hens and two dogs, rarely does anything end up in our trash bin. I feed apples to my horses but only rarely and never with the cores, since they can make the horses sick. When I was a little girl, we had a horse die that got out of its pasture and into a neighboring crab apple orchard. It ate so many that it got cyanide poisoning and died (it might have foundered and died later even without the cyanide due to the sudden introduction of so many apples into its system). That was a 1100 pound draft horse in one afternoon. I can only imagine the effects on a 100-200 pound human.

When we had chickens, they got all the scraps, and the eggs were Devine.

These days its compost.

Once i get a Vitamix though, all the greens will becoming blended. Only the Cores, Skins, Shells ext will be going into the garden.