Are most of an apple's vitamins in the peel?

Without the skin, you're only getting 2.1 grams, not even enough to qualify it as a "good source of fiber" (the cutoff is 3 grams). The skin also packs most of the vitamins. That same medium apple with skin packs 8.4 milligrams of vitamin C and 98 international units (IU) of vitamin A. read more

Eat the peel if it’s organic when you can not that it would make a huge difference to have it. The detail of the nutritional content of apple peel is completely irrelevant, it’s far more vital to generally make sure to a eat a whole-foods plant based-diet altogether rather than focusing on the peel of an item you’d eat in small amoints anyway. read more

An apple without the peel is still a healthy food, but you do lose out on some of the nutrients you would get if you ate the skin. A large apple without the skin contains 104 calories and 2.8 grams of fiber. read more

The skin also packs most of the vitamins. That same medium apple with skin packs 8.4 milligrams of vitamin C and 98 international units (IU) of vitamin A. Ditch the skin and that falls to 6.4 milligrams of vitamin C and 61 IU of vitamin A. Apples can ease breathing problems -- but only if you eat the skin. read more