Skin on certain vegetables?

[Ira7]

Archie loves yams/sweet potatoes and fresh beets, which I steam.

I always peel the skin off because I’m a neurotic nut, but do I have to?

 

[noodles123]

I think it is best to do so with potatoes, just because that is where the main pesticide residue would be-- plus, the eyes etc-- you want to know where there are so that you can remove them (and sometimes, with the skin on, it's easy to miss eyes). When I was a kid, I was taught to eat the skins, but years later, they often suggest that people do not (just due to the potential for chemicals in soil)..plus, green skin and flesh is toxic, and you can't tell that without peeling in some instances :

https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/outdoors/gardening/are-potatoes-poisonous

see link above. "Though by far the highest concentration of solanine in tubers is found in or right under the skins"

I know they don't eat the skin, but if a potato is turning green or has bad parts under the skin, I want to see it so that I can cut it out. You want to make sure the flesh isn't green at all under the skin.

 

[wrench13]

Talking about potatoes- many years ago, when my boys were Boy Scouts, and I the Scoutmaster, went on a camping weekend. We decided to make Scout Soup, with the majority of ingredients gotten from the woods. Long Island is potato country and one of the boys found a mess of potatoes. When we were prepping them , we found a few with green skin and flesh, and one dad , who was born and raised in Ireland said, Never eat a green potato. Advice ignored ( nothing about that in the Scout Handbook) and as a result the troop all got sick the next day. So yah, I cut the skins off tubers now. For us and Salty.

 

[texsize]

I know my CAG choked on the skin of a grape.
Don’t give her grapes anymore.

 

[fiddlejen]

I peel everything.
Spoiled birdies.

Calliope-budgie chews Everything. So I give her carrots. She happily decimates carrots Instead of paint and woodwork -- UNLESS i leave some skin on. She won't touch any part with skin. Paint - okay. Woodwork - fine. A little carrot skin? Uggh, no way.

For Sunny, I bought a special Oxo serrated peeler in order to peel Orange Bell Pepper. I had started peeling it because, well, Orange Pepper is not always available organic. Now, it doesnt matter whether organic or not. She only wants it peeled.

I don't normally feed them much home-prepped potatoes nor beets, but, if I did I am sure I would peel them too.

Spoiled birdies.

 

[Ira7]

Weird stories! Especially since I make loaded potato skins for myself.

And I didn’t know you could even peel a bell pepper.

 

[Scott]

I thoroughly scrub skin when able (tubers, orange, apples) but most parrots discard cellulose fibers and eat the internal parts. Removal with some veggies (peas, lima beans, etc) is impossible but they deftly separate and discard with their beaks.

 

[fiddlejen]

Weird stories! Especially since I make loaded potato skins for myself.

And I didn’t know you could even peel a bell pepper.

I use this peeler:
https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Serrated-Y-Peeler/dp/B07L519CHJ/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&hvadid=77859219809981&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=oxo+good+grips+serrated+peeler&qid=1605725257&s=home-garden&sr=1-6&tag=mh0b-20

It kind of happened accidentally one day when I cut a pepper at a slant and realized she was always attempting to avoid the peel when eating it. Then I noticed my old old Oxo carrot peeler had gotten dull, and when replacing it came across this dangerous serrated thing -- which works stupendously well for bell peppers. (Based on the pics, I think Oxo intended it for peeling Tomatoes. I have also peeled my knuckle once due to a slight finger-twitch) Like I said - spoiled birdies. Get their carrots and their bell peppers Peeled! (Though part of my excuse, is that I cannot always find the orange peppers available in organic.)