Blog — bananas

An Appeeling Way to Boost Nutrition I love texture in my cooking and enjoy experimenting with different techniques. On a whim, I tried adding a browning banana, peel and all, to my smoothie and I was surprised to find how smooth and frothy it became! And there was no trace of grittiness. I thought, I’m onto something! Plus there’s over 30% more nutrients in the peel than in the fruit alone so double bonus. It saves time when you don’t have to peel all your fruit and veggies first. Even if you have to cut or peel, there are still...

By Chef Mareya, The Fit Foodie Founder, Eat Cleaner   It’s a slippery slope. Whenever I talk food to people and ooze about the delicious, artisan quality of a product, they’re in. The minute I start talking about how we are integrally responsible for the impact our dietary decisions have on the environment, I start to lose people like ripe avocados. Seems like being a foodie and being ecologically fit do not necessarily intersect on the culinary highway.   According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a Swiss authority on food biodiversity, we need to start giving more...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Eat Cleaner launches an “a-peel-ing” campaign to minimize food waste and boost nutrition “Save the Peels” seven-day challenge helps you supercharge your health and spruce up your plate while saving the planet   LOS ANGELES, California – (February 20, 2018): When is the last time you ate a banana peel? If you’re thinking that’s just for monkeys, think again. In the U.S. alone, we eat more than 3.2 billion pounds of bananas each year – that’s 304 bananas every second – and the discarded peels add an extra 780 million pounds to our landfills. That’s...