Talk:Peel (fruit)

Citrus peel

What are the nutritional aspects of citrus peel? Is it high in fiber? Are there potential benefits from eating the inside of the peel? -69.87.203.15 (talk) 21:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It is high in soluble fiber, which is very heathy. view citron#uses BriefError (talk) 21:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge?

It would not make sense to merge this article into the articles about various things made with the peel. But if those articles want to merge into here, that might be OK. -69.87.203.15 (talk) 21:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Right. Only the parts talking about the products were merged, now the anatomy has to be merged into one good article.

Shoteh (talk) 18:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I would recommend the name of a new article should be, "fruit anatomy". BriefError (talk) 16:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I would not merge hesperidium as it refers to a certain type of fruit (a specialized berry) and not a fruit part. - tameeria (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

First please get the article to be created, and then we will all see what belongs and what not. BriefError (talk) 21:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Flavedo is just a different word for exocarp, albedo is mesocarp, exo-, meso-, and endocarp are all parts of the pericarp. Therefore, all these terms could be merged together into pericarp as they refer to layers of the pericarp. Hesperidium is a completely different thing. If it was merged somewhere, it would make most sense to merge it to berry because that's what it is. - tameeria (talk) 15:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The definition of Heperidium should be merged into berry (Ithink that it is actually there allready with no need to merge), and the anatomy detailization into fruit anatomy.Shoteh (talk) 15:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I would just leave Hesperidium alone, or perhaps make it a section of berry. But I wouldn't want to lose the photo and perhaps some of the other information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingdon (talk • contribs) 22:04, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I've generally been a fan of having a smaller number of better-written articles about such things (flower anatomy is a similar case; see for example Talk:Corolla#Move to Merge this article into Petal). But so far, such talk has not turned into good articles. Perhaps the place to start is to write fruit anatomy as if wikipedia had nothing on the subject (if someone has time to make a good effort). That might be more likely to succeed than trying to refactor a bunch of stubs into a real article (although I'm sure either approach could be done, if someone has the interest). Kingdon (talk) 04:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Health effects?

A lot of people in Eastern Europe think that plum and tomato skins (amongst other fruit) are bad for your stomach. Is there any basis to this, or is it the rubbish it seems to be? Malick78 (talk) 10:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)