Drying apples - to peel or not to peel

Scott

Most of what I have dried are yellow and goIden delicious.

I make mine as very thin apple chips and make extra dry and crispy.

My experience with the way I do it is that the dry skin becomes very tough and not chew worthy. :smile:

I have those spiral peeler/slicer and I wind up munching on the spaghetti-like skins.

They don’t go to waste as I use them in smoothies.

ALSO just recently I read that the nutrients in apple skins fight muscle wasting/weakness as we get older. See Iniv. Of Iowa

… caused by a protein called ATF4…It changes formation of genes, starving muscles of the proteins they need. Researchers found chemical in apple peel and green tomatoes prevent this.

Mike