I’m with all of you. A friend told me several months ago that she peels her apples before eating and I couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe I don’t. For me, the skin is part of the snap or crunch biting into it. Removing skin I relate to very young children who only want colorless food. No crust on bread, no skin on fruit, and mainly want pasta, chicken, and potatoes.
Last night I was watching something on TV and a woman removed the skin from a pear, and it triggered my memory that my MIL years ago was preparing a pear to serve, and she started to remove the skin, and I stopped her for my slices.
I think the nutrition is mostly in the skin also. I’m not sure of it, but since that’s where most of the color is, I assume that’s where the vitamins and minerals are. Maybe potassium. Is in the flesh part, that would make sense.
Eggplant I do take off about half the skin.
Cucumbers, my husband likes no skin, so I peel away half, often I eat what I peeled away for him. He’s now used to having some skin on the cucumbers. I do peel the skin on cucumbers completely off when they have that waxy coating on them. Gross. Why do they do that?
When I peel potatoes for mashed potatoes I often sauté the skins in oil with salt to taste.