Apparently We've Been Eating Apples Wrong Our Whole Lives (wasting 30%) - eat them this way

[Liberal_in_LA]

Apparently We've Been Eating Apples Wrong Our Whole Lives

The right way will surprise you (and it's kinda gross)

http://www.ivillage.com/apparently-we-ve-been-eating-apples-wrong-our-whole-lives/3-a-553059?obref=obnetwork

It's been reported that Americans waste about 40 percent of the food we buy.

Not only that, but apparently we’re throwing away 30 percent of every apple we eat too. That's right, when we eat apples by biting around the sides — as most people do — we’re missing out on almost a third of the fruit. FoodBeast wants you to know there’s a better way: Bite it from top to bottom (or bottom to top).

We love the idea of not wasting food, but what about the seeds?!

Watch this video to see the suggested technique in action -- and never eat an apple the same way again:

[okieinpain]

1. i dont' think so. glad im an american and I can't eat the way I want too. n/t.

[LanternWaste]

27. I'm pretty sure that one may eat an apple how they wish regardless of what country they live in.

I'm pretty sure that one may eat an apple how they wish regardless of what country they live in as taking pride in being both inefficient and wasteful isn't uniquely American.

But yeah... wave the flag a wee bit more... I'm sure someone out there thinks it's relevant.

[IronLionZion]

40. Socialism requires very strict laws on how you eat your apples

don't you know that liberals want to control your life?

[okieinpain]

63. lol.

[Lex]

49. Or even spell the way they want too.

Go USA!

[okieinpain]

62. lol, shut up and leave my spelling alone.

[grilled onions]

2. For Those Of Us Who No Longer Have Strong Jaws...

slice an apple and you won't waste any of it either. This way it also makes great finger food for late night snacking.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

6. Yes! You can still eat the skin and only cut out the seeds and

Toughest more bitter parts of the core (mAybe 5-10% of the apple).

[HereSince1628]

15. Most people apparently didn't have my parents...

Who weren't much into Miss Manners notion that food should be left behind so you appear satiated.

Leaving food or drink was punishable...I remember at 4 or 5 years old I had to stay at the table until I finished my corn. Over an hour or so I got it done...kernels AND the cob!

55 or so years later when the SO leaves food on her plate it still gives me the willies.

[liberal_at_heart]

17. I have a food addiction so I high five myself if I leave food on my plate.

I finish my fruits and vegetables(well I don't eat apple cores), but I watch my portion sizes on things like bread, potatoes, and other starchy foods.

[notadmblnd]

19. "People are starving in China" Can't tell you how many times we heard that.

And when we peeled potatoes, if the peels were too thick, we had to peel the peelings.

[LWolf]

39. It was the cooked carrots for me.

And I still have a hard time leaving food on a plate, regardless of whether I'm still hungry or not.

It's taken a great deal of my adult life to learn to put small amounts on the plate at a time so I can stop when I want without the guilt.

Of course, when you grow up raised by depression era people, and when you grow up raised by poor working class people who budget food from week to week to make sure there will be some every day, wasting food is sacrilege.

[tblue37]

41. ?? How do you eat the cob? nt

[HereSince1628]

48. Slowly, very slowly

[loli phabay]

64. etiquette says you leave some food so show that you are full and enjoyed the meal

Even in times of dire this was something we always did, yeah it might waste a piece of carrot or potato etc but it was considered good manners to the host.

[HereSince1628]

65. yaaiknow, but the host was threatening punishment if you did

everyone has their personal experience, I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's.

[loli phabay]

66. sorry did not mean to sound crass either, accept apoligies if i did

[Erose999]

67. I never thought of it that way. In high school I ate dinner with mf GF and her family, cleaned my

plate and cleaned a very modest second helping and was full, but they kept on offering me more food. To the point that I was wierded out by it. I guess if I had left a little it would have sent a message that I was satisfied and didn't want any more.

[HereSince1628]

68. Yes. I think that's part of the social interaction...

Also remember...people doing something nice also enjoy having it appreciated...a second helping says that.

The solution to the "boyfriends dilemma" is to take 2 small helpings.

Also remember...things that are spread around the plate, don't look like a pile of something that was disliked!

on edit: I've got all this advice....and no grand kids to share it with...

[countryjake]

72. Man, I hear ya!

I first learned about that ridiculous etiquette rule when I was a senior in high school and my boyfriend chided me for cleaning my plate after a nice supper at his folks' home. I guffawed at the very idea of leaving a stylish ort on my dish and told him that my own mother would be insulted if we didn't eat every last crumb she'd served us. That relationship never went far.

I also spent many a late hour sitting by myself at our table wallowing a huge wad of meat around on the plate, taking turns trying to chew it up, then looking at it some more and wishing we had a Lassie dog I could slip it to. And that was a weekly occurrence when I was little.

My parents both always ate every bit of an apple, core and all, with only the seeds left. Those seeds were then saved to dry out and plant in the orchard.

[Cali_Democrat]

23. Slap some peanut butter on there too

Yum.

[hobbit709]

3. Nothing like hydrogen cyanide from the seeds.

[RedCappedBandit]

31. Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

[cleanhippie]

51. Sure, wen you eat thousands of apple seeds at once.

[hobbit709]

55. won't take that many if you crack them with your teeth first.

[Gravitycollapse]

71. False. Uncracked you could eat an endless number of apple seeds.

The estimates for how many seeds you need to ingest to suffer from cyanide poisoning assumes that all of the cyanide in the seeds are metabolized. And that would require that they be pulverized first.

So, you are incorrect.

[Nye Bevan]

4. I used to eat everything except the stalk and the seeds when I was a kid (nt)

[sammytko]

9. I still do - even the stalk!

[Blue_In_AK]

5. My husband eats the core.

I think it's gross.

[Laffy Kat]

54. Give the core to your dog.

Dogs love apple cores and they're good for them!

[msanthrope]

57. My lab waits for his cores, butt wagging! nt

[Laffy Kat]

58. My dogs love them, too. They stare at me and salivate until I'm finished.

Every now and then I give them a small whole apple. My oldest in particular becomes absolutely orgasmic while she munches, juice running down her neck.

[msanthrope]

59. Core an apple, or drill holes in a big carrot. Stuff with peanut butter. Throw outside

and watch the happy crazy!

[Blue_In_AK]

60. Really?

I didn't know that.

She's such a princess, she'd probably want the whole apple.

[B2G]

7. My god, can't we do anything right?

[liberal_at_heart]

8. Well then I guess I'm going to continue to waste part of my apple.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. A bigger problem is with the varieties most easily found....

Many of those that are bred for appearance and keeping are not the highest quality for eating...

My love of heirloom tomatoes is only slightly greater than that for heirloom apples - they are hard to find, often ugly, don't keep well...but the flavors!

We have lots of apples at our local Farmers Market right now - I always seek the ones with brown, rough Russet skin (Roxbury Russet, Golden Russet), or the big green to pale yellow Mutsu....yum! The odd shaped York (kind of slanted and out of round) are delicious too.

Jefferson and Washington were really lucky to have great varieties like Esopus Spitzenberg and Newtown Pippin most common! I've only had them a few times - from Treemendus Apples in Michigan (hundreds of varieties, and they ship!)

Red Delicious....Golden Delicious....Granny Smith? for the most part, Yuck!

[REP]

24. Red and Yellow Delicious Apples are not delicious; they're barely apples

Granny Smiths are okay for baking if there are no real apples around.

My Jonathan trees should be arriving within a week ...

[tblue37]

42. I think winesaps taste pretty god. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

45. they are an older variety - really like them for fresh eating - really intense!

[tblue37]

46. A couple of years ago a variety I had not seen before--honey crisps, I think they

are called--showed up in the store. They cost a bit more, but they also taste sharp, tart, and sweet.

Eating any of the "delicious" varieties is like eating mushy cardboard. No flavor, no texture.

[NRaleighLiberal]

47. another really good (fairly recent) one with a bit of a mysterious background...and yes, more costly

it was originally thought to be a result of Macoun X Honeygold, but now known to be between Keepsake and ??? (lost experimental variety). It originated via research done in Minnesota.

Keepsake is a result of Northern Spy and Malina, from 1978. Malinda is an old New England apple.

[Kali]

53. yep

I was feeling pity, watching that poor guy eat two red "delicious"

[Sheepshank]

11. If I ate the whole thing, there'd be nothing left for Romeo

my schnauzer/yorkie adopted lovie. He adores the core!!

[REP]

25. My chickens get the cores

Sometimes they get a whole apple because they are spoiled

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I core mine, and then discard the icky seeds and stem!

[unblock]

13. if you're going to eat the whole thing, how does the orientation matter?

[GreenStormCloud]

37. You are using logic. That isn't fair. N/T

[idwiyo]

14. That's how I eat them. :)

[Xipe Totec]

16. That's hard core. nt

[Xithras]

18. Seems like a good way to get sick.

Look at the bottom of most apple apple varieties, and you'll see the remnants of the flower that gave rise to the apple itself. This flower was trod by bugs and all sorts of nasties, and its remnants can extend up to 1/3rd of the way into the apple itself. This part of the apple cannot be cleaned adequately and have been found to carry everything from bacteria, to insects, to disturbingly large amounts of pesticides sprayed on non-organic farms. It's generally not regarded as a big health concern however...because we don't eat that part anyway.

I personally once had an earwig crawl out of the bottom of an apple...AFTER I was halfway through eating it, and AFTER I had washed it. You'll never convince me to eat that thing.

Besides, the apples endocarp (the inner skin surrounding the seeds) can be hard in many varieties, and can present a throat scratch or choking hazard. Normal people usually consider it inedible.

[TroglodyteScholar]

50. Yep

I'm with you. Thanks for posting

[Laffy Kat]

56. Red peels give me a terrible stomach ache but yellow peels do not.

Go figure.

[Fawke Em]

20. You're supposed to eat the stem?

Ick.

I cut mine up, thinly cut out the stem and seeds and eat the rest.

I only waste the tiny sliver that come out with the core.

[GoCubsGo]

26. That's how I do it, too.

I quarter it, and then cut out the seeds and the tough covering that surrounds them, and the stem and the thin core. Not much goes to the trash.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. you wasteful eco destroyer

[annabanana]

21. omg That is how my kid eats them.

And to think I've been giving him a hard time about it...

[TreasonousBastard]

22. I will not eat the core or seeds, but...

didya all see that "how to eat a cupcake" link.

That'll get 'em talkin'

[Warpy]

28. When I'm done with an apple, all that's left is the tough pith in the middle,

the seeds, the flower end, and the stem. I don't leave a perfectly shaped core with a lot of good apple left on it and usually I eat it down so far it's in pieces.

But I don't enjoy the hard pith or the seeds or the flower end or the stem.

[Inkfreak]

29. I eat my apples in pie. (nt)

[reorg]

32. funny, I completely forgot that such people exist

who would only eat the most useless parts of an apple but throw away the skin and the core with its delicious seeds, LOL!

[BlueJazz]

33. I eat what I want to. If there's anything left, it goes to the Dog or Bunnies or Rat or Chinchilla.

Eating the core??...I think not. Yuck

[kestrel91316]

34. My dad, who grew up without indoor plumbing or electricity, taught me the civilized way to eat

apples: Wash thoroughly. Cut in half vertically. Cut each half in half again vertically. Carefully cut out core from each wedge. Eat and enjoy.

No dilemma about waste. No mess, either.

[Shankapotomus]

35. I'm not sure what one apple's seeds

can do but supposedly a cupful of apple seeds are potentially deadly.

[freshwest]

36. Know someone who eats it all including the stem. But then, she eats sleepies, too.

In fact, she'll eat anything that's remotely called food. And opens up things with her teeth. Pretty wild and free, that one, brought up on a dairy farm. Nothing fazes her. Me, not so much. I core the apples and put the rest in compost, which is not wasteful if you are gardening, and she does.

[SoCalDem]

38. I cut them into fourths. cut away the seeds & eat everything but the seeds.. no waste

I tricked my (then) 4 yr old into eating them peel & all by pointing out the flecks of color on the peel & told him "See those spots? those are the vitamins that will make you big & strong"

I overheard him telling a little friend to not spit out the peeling because that's where the vitamins were

[LuvNewcastle]

43. I eat apple sauce. Rarely do I eat the piece of fruit.

I don't really like delicious apples, but I can eat them if they're made into sauce. I don't buy apple sauce with sugar added, just plain apple sauce.

[cherokeeprogressive]

44. I have always eaten the entire apple, including the stem. n/t

[OregonBlue]

52. I grew up in the Hood River valley in Oregon. All orcharding. I don't know anyone who eats the

whole thing. We cut them in half, remove the core and stem and eat the rest. It's not wasteful and the core is hard and unpleasant. There is no wrong way to eat an apple. Eat is the way you enjoy eating it. That's the point of an apple. Enjoyment.

[MADem]

61. Just because some idiot does it on the internet, that doesn't make it "right."

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life, frankly.

Slice the apple if you don't want to be wasteful, but don't go eating the junk bits--they belong in the compost heap.

[Erose999]

69. I quarter them and cut out the part surrounding the seeds. I also cut out the stem, and the thing on

the bottom opposite the stem. The thing that looks and tastes like a butthole.

[Warren Stupidity]

70. Thanks to this nonsense I have a small apple tree growing in my stomach.