Pare the Apples | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

Pare the Apples.

MANY people have the habit of eating apples and other fruits without removing the outer skin. Sometimes this is done with the idea that this is the more healthful way. This is certainly an error. The outer covering of most fruits is of a woody, indigestible nature, and hence of no use as an aliment. In many cases it is a mechanical irritant, if not injurious in any other way. But it can be shown that the eating of the skins of fruits, especially of apples, is often decidedly dangerous. Dr. Tschamer, of Graz, has discovered that the black specks which are often seen on apples and oranges are clusters of fungus growth. They are of a character similar to those which give rise to diphtheria. Dr. T. scraped from an orange some of these black specks and inhaled them. In the course of a week the unpleasant symptoms first experienced had developed into genuine whooping-cough, which led him to believe that this is one of the causes of that disease. Whether the conclusion be correct or not, it is pretty certain that fungi ought not to be eaten, and so fruit skins should be discarded.—Good Health.