# Poll: Do you eat the skin of kiwi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172 "2017-07-13T15:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/1 "2017-07-13T15:14:28Z")
Many people give me horrified looks if they see me eat a kiwi- because I just eat the entire damn thing, without peeling it. I absolutely love the flavor of the kiwi skin, though, and it is probably my favorite part of the fruit! This led me to wonder how many other people like the whole fruit versus only the flesh. Hence, the poll! ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/2 "2017-07-13T15:20:50Z")
Oh, the fruit. That’s a relief. Of course not. Do you eat orange rinds too? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/3 "2017-07-13T15:21:31Z")
We don’t eat kiwi here, but do eat a lot of chicken. It’s a sometime topic of discussion about whether or not to eat the skin. Some like it because of the flavor. Some say the collagen is good for you. I don’t like the texture, so I tend to peel it off unless it’s really baked and crispy. (Or maybe you mean the peel of a [kiwifruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit) rather than the skin of a [kiwi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi).) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/4 "2017-07-13T15:23:07Z")
I have never heard of anyone eating the skin. So, no, here. I might have to try it just to see, though. But it’s not like I come across very many kiwis these days. I mean, they’re around, but I just remember a period maybe in the late 80s or early 90s where they seemed to be way more popular than now. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/5 "2017-07-13T15:24:23Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > We don’t eat kiwi here, but do eat a lot of chicken. It’s a sometime topic of discussion about whether or not to eat the skin. Some like it because of the flavor. Some say the collagen is good for you. I don’t like the texture, so I tend to peel it off unless it’s really baked and crispy. > > (Or maybe you mean the peel of a [kiwifruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit) rather than the skin of a [kiwi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi).) Oh, man, as for chicken, for me, a crispy chicken skin is the best part of the chicken. Or, maybe I should say, the perfect complement to the chicken meat. That’s why I love chicken wings so much–wonderful meat-to-skin ratio. That said, I’m not quite as enthused at flabby, boiled chicken skin. Or rubbery, slow-cooked chicken skin. Gotta be crisp. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/6 "2017-07-13T15:29:14Z")
Sure. You smoke them and they get you high. Wait. That’s banana peels. No. Not kiwi, not oranges, not bananas, not coconuts. Eat the skin of any of those and I’ll give a look that will peel your kiwi. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/7 "2017-07-13T15:53:21Z")
Yes. If you uncover them for the last 10 minutes, it gets a nice crispy brown on top ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/8 "2017-07-13T16:06:23Z")
Yes. No one ever told me not to until my wife. I still do anyways. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/9 "2017-07-13T16:14:01Z")
Yes because as a child my grandmother told me if I ate the skin I’d grow hair on my chest. Didn’t work very well I barely have any hair there. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/10 "2017-07-13T16:19:35Z")
It has never occurred to me to eat the skin, just as I’ve never eaten banana peels or orange rinds; but this thread motivated me to check, and apparently (according to the [California Kiwifruit Commission](http://www.kiwifruit.org/about/faqs.aspx)) it’s perfectly okay to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/11 "2017-07-13T16:21:57Z")
For those of you that don’t, the skin tastes much like the skin of a plum (which I imagine you likely do eat, and if not, the world makes no sense to me…) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/12 "2017-07-13T16:26:51Z")
I use a tiny spoon to scoop out the insides as the fruit rests in a kiwicup. (ETA: Holy crap, I found [a suitable image](http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/static/photo/1x/Salt-Kiwi-Cup-Pepper-Saltzstreuer-Egg-Cups-471727.jpg) on Google.) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/13 "2017-07-13T17:11:16Z")
No, that’s weird. But I do eat sunflower seed shells, only spitting if I eat too fast and the gunk just builds up. I guess there are people who spend 30 seconds on each one meticulously splitting the shell and spitting it out? Sounds like too much work. And I only eat them every few years. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/14 "2017-07-13T17:12:42Z")
\ I don’t even like peaches, because I don’t like the fuzz, so I can’t imagine eating kiwi skin. Actually, I can imagine it and it’s squicking me out. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/15 "2017-07-13T17:24:51Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > \ I don’t even like peaches, because I don’t like the fuzz, so I can’t imagine eating kiwi skin. Actually, I can imagine it and it’s squicking me out. This. I love peaches, but must peel them. The texture of that velvety skin just bugs the crap out of me in my mouth. Meanwhile while I won’t eat unpeeled kiwi or peaches, I’ll happily eat apple cores, orange rind, even whole Meyer lemons w/rind. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/16 "2017-07-13T17:27:59Z")
I haven’t before, but I am certainly going to try it now that I’ve heard of it! P.S. I eat orange peels. Not the whole thing, but a few bites. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/17 "2017-07-13T17:30:07Z")
I have _tried_ eating the skin, after someone told me that it was edible. Once. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/18 "2017-07-13T18:39:48Z")
Yes. They actually have no flavor at all and they are edible. Removing the skin seems pointless. But then, I eat the peanut with the shell on. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/19 "2017-07-13T18:59:59Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Yes. They actually have no flavor at all and they are edible. Removing the skin seems pointless. > > But then, I eat the peanut with the shell on. Well _I_ swallow whole coconuts! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172/20 "2017-07-13T19:40:36Z")
Urk! Kiwi skin? All that fur? No way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-eat-the-skin-of-kiwi/791172.md?page=2)