Kiwi fruit

[Lefty 200 Drams]

Do you eat the skin?

I've been getting some strange looks for doing so, never thought it was odd!

[Hugo a Gogo]

quote from wiki - While the skin of kiwifruit is often removed before serving, it is completely edible.

weirdo

[Hugo a Gogo]

and more - The kiwifruit skin is edible and contains high amounts of dietary fiber. In a fully matured kiwifruit one study showed that this as much as tripled the fiber content of the fruit. In addition, as many of the vitamins are stored immediately under the skin, leaving the skin intact greatly increases the vitamin c consumed by eating a single piece of kiwifruit when compared to eating it peeled. As with all fruit, it is recommended that if eating the skin, the fruit be washed prior to consumption.

[Lefty 200 Drams]

That'll be why I just shat myself then.

[Dan_1981]

I eat it. It's lovely.

[road_rager]

Love the skin

[escargot]

Do you have to give it a going over with the mach 3 first?

[A911DOM]

My son tried this just yesterday (he's quite partial to a Kiwi or two) and the look on his face when he got some of the little furry bits on his tongue was hilarious.

Thankfully it didnt put him off eating it once we'd peeled it for him, but I said to the Mrs at the time 'you can eat the skin if you want to' - she looked at me like I was an idiot

[Mobile Chicane]

Something I discovered in New Zealand (and would otherwise never have thought of doing) is that the easiest way to eat them is to cut them in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon.

[Dan_1981]

Mobile Chicane said:

Something I discovered in New Zealand (and would otherwise never have thought of doing) is that the easiest way to eat them is to cut them in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon.

that's how I used to eat them until I found out how nice the skin was.

[Lefty 200 Drams]

They used to sell them at my school (early 90's) with a little green plastic spoon. The spoon had a serrated edge so that you could cut the top off and eat it like a boiled egg.

I never did though, just used to bite the stem off and eat the thing, skin and all

[tontoro]

Mobile Chicane said:

Something I discovered in New Zealand (and would otherwise never have thought of doing) is that the easiest way to eat them is to cut them in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon.

is there another way? (aside from eating the skin)

[Hugo a Gogo]

btw, if you put kiwi fruit in jelly, the jelly won't set

handy info

[AndyAudi]

Mobile Chicane said:

Something I discovered in New Zealand (and would otherwise never have thought of doing) is that the easiest way to eat them is to cut them in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon.

However, it looks a bit like your eating a cat's ahole.

[soad]

Lefty 200 Drams said:

Do you eat the skin?

Well, I never have done. Always peel them - learn something new each day it seems...

[Henry Hawthorne]

Hugo a Gogo said:

btw, if you put kiwi fruit in jelly, the jelly won't set

handy info

Same applies with pineapple.

[Hugo a Gogo]

if you put a kiwi in a pineapple?