That’s Euell. Sheesh.
I was nibling on a lime peel at dinner with friends when Delores demands “You are’nt EATING that peel, are you?” I blandly deny her allegation. And continue comsuming my lime peel. “Yes, you ARE! You’re EATING that peel!” Again I deny it. And continue. “She EATING it!” she shrieks to the restaurant in general. “For God’s sake, Delores, who CARES!? and any fool can see that YES she IS eating it!!” my cousin Julie screams back across the table.
It was good.
I’d only be worried if he ate coconuts.
Chocolate oranges. 
OF COURSE I eat the whole thing!
Really? Some fruit seeds have cyanide? Why is this? This is news to me. Is it there naturally, or a side effect from pesticides?
Our crab apples are rippening real good now, and I eat the whole thing… I too dipped uncooked rhubarb stalks in sugar to eat them as a kid… I don’t like crunching open grape seeds, but I’ll swallow them before I try giving myself tougue to root and spit them out…eat the whole kiwi, and there are some types of potato with paper-thin skin; just eat that too. Take a hand full of nanking cherries and just mush them up in your mouth and swallow the whole glob (too much effort to spit out 15 separate seeds), and of course leave the seeds in peppers - that’s where a lot of the hot is! There are very few seeds from regular food that are toxic, and even then only in amounts that people would almost never eat; many are specifically made to go through an animal’s digestive system, so it wouldn’t do the plant much good to kill all it’s hosts (or no one would spread those seeds anymore)
Aaaargh! Biggirl! You eat MANGO PEEL?
Mango peels contain urushiol, which is the stuff in poison ivy which causes contact dermatitis.
I found this out AFTER the first time I cut up a mango, and nibbled some of the remaining flesh which was attached to the peel. I ended up with a major case of Mick Jagger lips.
(On the other hand, I am also highly sensitive to urushiol) Nowadays, I carefully peel my mangoes and wash my hands immediately afterwards.
And, you other guys:
(this site identifies the Prunus family as including fuzzy peaches and smooth-skinned peaches called nectarines (P. persica), plums (P. domestica), apricots (P. armeniaca) and cherries (P. avium and P. cerasus). )
Be careful out there!
Potato skins are great! Indeed, that’s why some restaurants serve them (though I don’t know why noplace seems plain chicken skin, without all the pesky meat).
And was hasn’t Esprix made a reply to this thread?
Bump up her life insurance first
Is it OK to eat watermelon seeds? This thread got me thinking about how nice it would be to not have to spit seeds out. When I was a kid, I thought that watermelon seeds would migrate to your appendix, and that once your appendix got overloaded, you’d have to go to the hospital so they could take it out before it exploded. I know my parents would not have been the source of that information… I wonder if I made it up myself, or if someone else told me? Will have to poll my family.
-Sue