Before you peel your vegetables - read this!!!

Do you peel your carrots? Do you scoop your potato out of its skin?  Do you peel apples and just eat the insides?  Oops - apparently you shouldn't.

Carrots pack 45 per cent of their orange antioxidant pigment, beta-carotene, into their peel. When we eat this colourful pigment, it collects under our own skin, helping to protect it from damaging UV rays of the sun.
Vitamin C, and the Vitamin niacin (B3), which are needed for healthy immune and nervous systems, are also most concentrated inn carrot skin, and therefore lost when peeling.

As for potatoes, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, say, gram for gram, potato skin has far more fibre, iron, potassium, and B vitamins than its interior.

Apples, oranges, potatoes and aubergines should all be eaten with the peel for maximum benefits, as up to a third of the fibre in vegetables can be found in its skin.