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Brown speckles on your apricot

WEBThat’s just natural.”. You might also see larger, more irregular brown spots on apricots. Those could be evidence of hail or another injury from back in the orchard, but are also nothing to worry about. The apricot pictured above came from a freshly opened bag of dried apricots. Those brown speckles are different from the dull, brown look

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Sprouted seeds inside your squash

WEBHowever, by the time a squash is sprouting, its orange flesh is no longer in its prime. It will probably be stringier, less sweet, less nutty, Perkins-Veazie said. I ate the butternut squash that yielded these slightly sprouted seeds and found it to be OK. However, Kitchn writer Emily Han reported that a more heavily sprouted spaghetti squash

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Brown area inside avocado

WEBAn injury or microbe can cause brown areas in an avocado. Bruises weaken the tissue, potentially causing that corner of the avocado to soften faster. Its cells could have leaked compounds that oxidized to a brown color and would eventually turn black. That could be all we’re seeing in this image. But, the weakened avocado flesh could …

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Dark, purple residue under avocado skin

WEBThat’s simple enough, but sometimes, like all of us, the avocado gets carried away and the color designated for the skin lands on the flesh of the fruit. That’s why you might see some stray purple or an almost blackish residue when you pull back the peel. Logically, such color transfer is more common in very ripe or dark fruit, according to

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Savory recipes using orange peel

WEBAccording to This Healthy Table, “Shichimi Togarashi” or Japanese 7 Spice blend is a “peppery Japanese spice blend, typically made from a mix of chili peppers, orange peel, sesame seeds, ginger, and nori.”. To us, it sounds like a bright, crunch, umami wonderland of a seasoning. And a perfect way to use your orange peels.

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Are hairy carrots OK to eat

WEBYou can eat hairy carrots. But none of this impacts the quality of the carrot. If the carrot otherwise looks good and is firm, it should still taste great. By the way, these little roots in the images in this post aren’t technically “root hairs.”. According to the Photographic Atlas for Botany by Maria Morrow, “root hairs” are a

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Apple slices turned brown

WEBWhen you bite or cut into an apple you’re breaking open tiny apple cells. Enzymes and compounds that the cell had kept separate from each other suddenly mix together. Add some oxygen in the air to the equation and the resulting chemical reaction leaves us with this brown color. It looks icky, but the apple knows what it’s doing.

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Is it safe to eat an egg that cracked during boiling

WEBWhether the egg turns out bulbous and distorted, like the one gracing my salad pictured below, or creates cloudlike wisps of white, like the egg pictured in the pot above, it’s still perfectly safe to eat an egg that started out intact, but cracked during boiling. As with any egg, since it’s been thoroughly heated, anything potentially

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Should you eat a hard-boiled egg with a greenish yolk

WEBAccording to FoodSafety.gov, when you boil an egg for too long, sulfur and iron compounds react on the surface of the yolk, creating this icky color. Or, this might happen if there’s a high iron content in your cooking water. But, that’s it. This is safe to eat. You’ll just need to decide if you’d like some ham with your, you know

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Sometimes perfectly good peppers can have bad seeds

WEBWhat you see: Dark or shriveled seeds in your pepper. What it is: Seeds that didn’t properly develop. Eat or Toss: You weren’t going to eat the seeds anyway, but rest assured that seeds like these are harmless and don’t indicate that anything is wrong with the rest of the pepper. Go ahead and eat up the pepper!

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