You Can and Should Eat Banana Peels
I’ve always assumed that the sole purpose of a banana peel is to make a cheap, farcical laugh at the cost of some poor bum, but it turns out that you can (and should!) Eat the slippery bastards.
Banana peel is not only edible, but also very healthy: it contains fiber, vitamins C and B-6, potassium and magnesium. (They should only be avoided by those who are allergic to latex, as the peel contains some proteins that cause a reaction .) They can be mixed with cocktails (along with the rest of the bananas), fermented in vinegar, or cooked. into delicious recipes like Toran’s banana peel or black-eyed pea banana peel . The riper the banana, the easier it will be to chew, but even the toughest bananas can be softened in ten minutes of boiling (or frying, or baking).
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