A survey conducted by the UK Food Standards Agency (to help judge if eating fruit peel should be taken into account how much pesticide residue people are likely to get from the food that they eat) revealed that one in five UK adults regularly snack on or eat fruit peel as part of their diet.

Of the 2,011 adults contacted in the research, 385 said they consumed at least one type of fruit peel.
About 27 per cent of the south of the UK admitted to eating fruit peel, 16 per cent of those living in the north, and 14 per cent …read more