Wash, but don't peel your carrots before eating them. For that matter, don't peel any vegetable or fruit you don't have to, including a lot that you normally wouldn't even consider eating without peeling because you could easily wipe out all those insulin sensitizing and cancer-preventing benefits, in addition to a lot more.
Well, the same scientists who compared them to a powerful anti-diabetic drug also found that carrot peels contained about 10 times more falcarinol and falcarindiol than the actual meat of the carrot. (2)
Sure, the meat of the vegetable still contains some of those two fatty acids, but you'd probably lose more than half of those fat-fighting, cancer-thwarting fatty alcohols by peeling your carrot.
This is also true of a lot of other fruits and vegetables whose skins, like those of carrots, contain a cornucopia of fiber, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, and other phytochemicals, so stop peeling just about every damn fruit or vegetable you can think of.
And don't just decide not to peel the conventional ones – get a little freaky in your non-peeling.
NOT PEELING IS APPEALING
You know those two fatty alcohols I just mentioned above, the ones implicated in increasing insulin sensitivity, making it hard for fat cells to absorb fat, and preventing prostate cancer?Well, the same scientists who compared them to a powerful anti-diabetic drug also found that carrot peels contained about 10 times more falcarinol and falcarindiol than the actual meat of the carrot. (2)
Sure, the meat of the vegetable still contains some of those two fatty acids, but you'd probably lose more than half of those fat-fighting, cancer-thwarting fatty alcohols by peeling your carrot.
This is also true of a lot of other fruits and vegetables whose skins, like those of carrots, contain a cornucopia of fiber, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, and other phytochemicals, so stop peeling just about every damn fruit or vegetable you can think of.
And don't just decide not to peel the conventional ones – get a little freaky in your non-peeling.
