How do Americans eat fruit? Strawberries and blueberries, of course, can only be eaten with leather. Grape, seedless or seeded, eaten with skin. As for apples, pears and peaches, as far as I can see, they are eaten with skin. Orange, grapefruit (grapefruit), natural peeling eat. Melon, kiwi, pineapple, must be peeled. Americans are more afraid of trouble, will use the method of some neat or specialized tools to peel. Such as: kiwi, cut off his head, with a spoon to scoop out the whole. With pineapple, pineapple peeler, peeled, go nuclear, core pulling, three in one, one. Of course, it will be more wasteful.
American fruit is not too expensive. Twenty years ago, twenty pounds of watermelon, 2, a $3, now up to about 6, $7; $0.29 bananas 1 pounds (454 grams), now rose to around $0.59; some fruits rose as high as three or four times, such as cherry, even more expensive than $4 to 1 pounds, with imports Leah Australia over the price of mutton.
But Americans still have fruit every day. An apple a day keeps the doctor away". Americans eat apples, basically the whole skin with bite. Dinner time, in addition to strawberries, grapes, apples, peaches, and so on, are cut into small pieces, but not peeled. The orange is cut into four pieces and covered with leather. Of course, no one eats the skin. Bananas peel, cut into small pieces, do not provide the whole banana.
If you make salads with apples, peaches and other fruits, they are usually not peeled.
Americans eat apples, pears, peaches do not peel, because Americans are used to "assured food."". Many Americans don't even wash it and pick it up. As a result, the food and Drug Administration (FDA) called on people to "Wash and vegetables before eating fruits" before eating fruits and vegetables. Wash the fruit with running water and rinse with a faucet. No detergent is available.
Americans eat apples, pears, peaches do not peel, but also because they believe that popular science knowledge, eating the peel is good.
First, the peel is rich in dietary fiber (dietary, fiber), such as pectin (pectin), Dan Ning (tannins) and so on. They can improve intestinal function and prevent constipation. They inhibit harmful chemicals in food and reduce the risk of bowel cancer. They can also help lower levels cholesterol (help lower, serum, LDL, LDL, LDL).
Two, a lot of fruit, especially guava and citrus fruit, peel contains a lot of vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, selenium, manganese, zinc (calcium, selenium, manganese, zinc), even to the pulp content several times (several fold more than its pulp).
Of course, Americans don't eat citrus peels directly. Chinese people in the United States will use their brains, such as using citrus peel to make tea, drink, help regulate qi and phlegm, relieve dampness and lower blood pressure. Some homemade preserves, too. Cut into small strips and boil with sugar and water. Dry or dry. Serve. Not long ago I try homemade candied orange peel, sweet and rich, it is refreshing. A great sense of achievement.
