I use citrus peels in the kitchen garbage disposal to clean it out and leave a nice scent behind. My mother saves them in the freezer for making candied rinds and jams.
Today I was throwing some lemon peels in the compost pile, and I thought to myself Are these things really supposed to be composted? It doesn’t seem like it would break down into good soil, with all that citric acid. Thanks for asking this jdegrazia.
You can compost it but you can’t do too much. It’ll make your compost too acidic if you do a lot. And you want a good balance to have a good compost. But yes you can compost your orange peels. Just don’t make orange juice every morning and have to compost like 5 a day.
I’ve used orange peels to rehydrate pouch tobacco too. There wasn’t a lot of transfer of taste, but there WAS moisture transfer, which is what I wanted!