# Eat taiwanese grape skin: yes or no? **URL:** \ **Category:** Food & Drink\ **Created:** [May 21, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215 "2020-05-21T05:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iamspartacus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/iamspartacus/32/31783_2.png) [@iamspartacus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/iamspartacus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/1 "2020-05-21T05:56:16Z")
My wife insists that I do not eat the skin of Taiwanese grapes. It’s the dark purple, thick kind of skin. Is there a reason for this? I’ve been so used to popping grapes in my mouth and swallowing everything that I wonder if there is any nutritional/toxic reason not to eat the skin of the grapes we buy here. What say you? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hanna/32/24014_2.png) [@Hanna](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/2 "2020-05-21T06:05:57Z")
I say 吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮；不吃葡萄倒吐葡萄皮 Edit: For the illiterate, this is just a common tongue twister having to do with eating grapes and spitting out grape skin. ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/3 "2020-05-21T06:07:54Z")
In these kind of situations I imagine someone liberally smearing pesticides over the skin and thinking “no one’s going to eat that” ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hanna/32/24014_2.png) [@Hanna](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/4 "2020-05-21T06:11:44Z")
I don’t eat the skin because it’s too tough and rather tart compared to the rest of the grape. I just bite into the grape, ever so nimbly slip my tongue between the flesh of the grape and the skin, and remove the skin in one mostly intact piece. Then I dig the tip of my tongue into the center and scoop out the seed, as well. Hmmm…maybe getting a bit too graphic for the forum. ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/5 "2020-05-21T06:12:59Z")
Funny, I was thinking I should start a fruit eating thread 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/6 "2020-05-21T06:14:50Z")
> [@Hanna](#): > > maybe getting a bit too graphic for the forum. The Forum is supposed to be graphic. ---
**Author:** ![slawa](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/slawa/32/112823_2.png) [@slawa](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/slawa)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/7 "2020-05-21T06:31:13Z")
> [@Hanna](#): > > I don’t :nsfw: the skin because it’s too tough and rather tart compared to the rest of the :nsfw:. I just :nsfw: into the :nsfw:, ever so nimbly slip my tongue between the flesh of the :nsfw: and the skin, and remove the skin in one mostly intact piece. Then I dig the tip of my tongue into the center and scoop out the seed, as well. > > Hmmm…maybe getting a bit too graphic for the forum. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![iamspartacus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/iamspartacus/32/31783_2.png) [@iamspartacus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/iamspartacus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/8 "2020-05-21T06:44:43Z")
I tried to be a good husband and started peeling. Not one-half of a grape through, I gave up and just chucked it into my mouth. ![](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/d/b/db1d1150fc576877f96947daa1fe241d8aedd7ba.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hanna/32/24014_2.png) [@Hanna](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/9 "2020-05-21T06:49:33Z")
One time when my mom and I were headed back to the United States, she brought some of those grapes with her as a snack. The person seated next to us watched as she painstakingly peeled and seeded the grapes for me (probably 4 years old at the time?), and they said to her, “Wow. You are a _great_ mother.” ---
**Author:** ![iamspartacus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/iamspartacus/32/31783_2.png) [@iamspartacus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/iamspartacus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/10 "2020-05-21T06:51:33Z")
I happen to like tart as well, so after peeling the 1/2 grape, I was like, “I’m not going to enjoy this. I’m eating the skin.” ---
**Author:** ![SnuffsEnough](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SnuffsEnough](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/SnuffsEnough)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/11 "2020-05-21T06:58:27Z")
You left out the most important part. What happens to the remnants? ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/12 "2020-05-21T07:21:00Z")
> [@iamspartacus](#): > > My wife insists that I do not eat the skin of Taiwanese grapes. It’s the dark purple, thick kind of skin. Is there a reason for this? Yes, the skin of grapes here is hard to chew and therefor Taiwanese spit it out with the pits. Western grapes have a soft skin, some are seedless. Taiwanese have a boon for this, shrimp with skin, little bone fragments in meat, bones in fish … they like to spit out stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hanna/32/24014_2.png) [@Hanna](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/13 "2020-05-21T07:29:33Z")
Fighting the urge to make a “spit or swallow” poll… ---
**Author:** ![jo](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/jo/32/174705_2.png) [@jo](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/jo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/14 "2020-05-21T07:33:29Z")
Before I peel off the skin like banana now I got no time for it got no patience. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hanna/32/24014_2.png) [@Hanna](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/15 "2020-05-21T07:57:21Z")
> [@jo](#): > > Before I peel off the skin like banana now I got no time for it got no patience. I initially read this as you saying you don’t even bother to peel bananas anymore and was impressed and horrified by the idea of someone eating a banana peel and all. ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/16 "2020-05-21T07:59:31Z")
> [@Hanna](#): > > I initially read this as you saying you don’t even bother to peel bananas anymore and was impressed and horrified by the idea of someone eating a banana peel and all. Just squeeze it out. ---
**Author:** ![SnuffsEnough](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SnuffsEnough](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/SnuffsEnough)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/17 "2020-05-21T08:01:02Z")
This gets better and better… ---
**Author:** ![SnuffsEnough](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SnuffsEnough](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/SnuffsEnough)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/18 "2020-05-21T08:02:22Z")
I sometimes eat oranges and tangerines like apples, peel and all. I have never eaten an entire apple core though. ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/19 "2020-05-21T08:03:18Z")
> [@SnuffsEnough](#): > > I sometimes eat oranges and tangerines like apples, peel and all. You wax your intestines? ---
**Author:** ![SnuffsEnough](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SnuffsEnough](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/SnuffsEnough)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215/20 "2020-05-21T08:08:55Z")
If it prolongs the life of my car’s body, it should do the same for me. [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-taiwanese-grape-skin-yes-or-no/192215.md?page=2)