We've entered the "ber" months — September, October, November, and December — arguably the best few months of the year to bring new ingredients into the kitchen and . When you hit up your local farmer's market or grocery store on the weekend, it's time to start picking up those delicious fruits and veggies in peak season, such as squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and of course, apples. Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith — the flavor is up to you, but pretty soon you'll start seeing more and more creative ways to that you accidentally picked at the orchard (sorry to your bank account, and your fruit drawer).
The next time your recipe calls for peeled apples, or your picky toddler won't eat the slices while the skin is still attached, don't throw away those apple peels; save them for your next smoothie instead. While adding apples to your smoothie is far from a revolutionary idea, you may not have remembered that the apple peels you're tossing down the garbage disposal are just as edible on the apple as they are off it. In fact, apple peels contain a large amount of the fiber that comes from eating an apple.
You can find about 4.4 grams of total fiber in a medium-sized apple peel alone. Benefits of using apple peels in your smoothies Apples in general are an , fiber-rich fruit.
They contain a boatload of important vitamins and minerals, but it's the apple peels themselves that hold about 72% of the apple's vitamin E and vitamin K content. Fiber-wise, apple peels p.
