Eating banana peel

Does anyone eat banana peels? I have been eating some of them. They are very tough and have an unpleasant flavor. I also eat orange and kiwi peels, but they are easier to eat. Should I be eating the banana peels or are they too fibrous and hard to digest? I only buy organic bananas.

I don't eat the peel but it is edible. Not sure i would like to, but hey, each to their own :)

Sorry, don't know about nutritional values or anything like that.

WHY r u eating the peels?

Well I don't think they taste very good but I remember hearing somewhere that if you do eat the peels to make sure they are organic because the peels tend to absorb all the pesticides.

Don't eat things that are 'very tough and have an unpleasant flavour' unless you're actually starving to death, stranded on a desert island or something.   There's no nourishment in tough skins and you could give yourself terrible stomach-ache.

This just sounds awful. Why would you ever do this if you weren't starving to death?

Are you for real?  Your posts are all very strange.

Just googled your topic and found some merit for their consumption. The info wasn't at the beginning of the article, though. Had to look w-a-y down to find it. Seems there is real value in their consumption, especially when made into a drink.

"Learn Ripe Banana Facts About Nutrition and Calories"

www.healthynewage.com/fine-gifts.htm.

i've already tasted a banana peels "farofa" (don't know how people call it in english), it's good. but i guess this is just a way to avoid throwing the peels out, nothing else.

do you have an ED? i know that when i was at the height of my ED i would eat orange peels, lemon peels, apple cores...the entire fruit. i think it's disgusting now and i don't know what compelled me to do it then but I did. Maybe you're going through something similar.

I don't have an eating disorder. I only eat the peels because I heard most of the nutrients in fruits are in the peels.

I am always eating orange peels, and apple cores, ect. Orange peels boost your metabolism, but I don't know about banana peels. Also, I don't have an eating disorder, well, I don't think I do, but at one point it may have been a possibility when I was only eating 1200 calories a day, now I eat 1600-1800 calories a day. Btw I am 14 years old,female,5 foot 4, and 138 pounds. Does this sound right to you guys?

Original Post by missrawr18:

Orange peels boost your metabolism,

 dude, where did you hear that?

Sounds pretty nasty to me.

What's the point in eating something that has an unpleasant flavor and texture?  I'm sure that there are some nutritious things in banana peels, but when you can get the same nutrients from something more tasty, why would you eat a banana peel?  Food should taste good.

Original Post by darien95:

I don't have an eating disorder. I only eat the peels because I heard most of the nutrients in fruits are in the peels.

That's only true to a point but there are plenty of exceptions.   Usually there's a reason why food tastes bitter... i.e. it's not good to eat - often poisonous. 

Reading your post you seem to 'hear' an awful lot of misleading information and then you follow it without really thinking it through.  Have you ever considered going to see a qualified dietician or someone else that knows about nutrition?  Get your info from someone with education and experience rather than the unreliable stuff that gets printed all over the web?

i don't have an ED but i do eat apple cores. maybe i'm just strange.

A lot of people eat apple-cores.  If it's a particularly nice apple the core can be quite soft and taste fine.  Have you ever actually bitten into a banana skin?  ... It's bloody awful.