The Most Bizarre Reasons Kids Are Upset

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Who Knew the Peels of These Foods Are So Nutritious?

Eat the Peels of These 10 Fruit and Vegetables!

In all probability, the first thing you do when eating an orange is tear off the peel and chuck it straight in the trash. Well, guess what? By doing this, you’re missing out on a load of nutrients. For example, an orange peel has nearly twice the amount of vitamins as the flesh inside, and though it might sound a bit gross at first, there are plenty of ways you can incorporate orange peels into your diet.

 

The same can be said for a lot of fruits and vegetables. Below are 10 foods with nutritious peels that you should be eating, alongside some suggestions on how you can add them to your diet.

 

Apples

 

An apple’s skin contains around half of the apple’s overall dietary fiber content. A medium-sized apple delivers 9 milligrams of vitamin C, 100 IUs of vitamin A, and 200 grams of potassium. By taking off the peel, you lose a third of those nutrients. To add to this, the peel has 4 times more vitamin K than its flesh, about 5% of your daily value. Vitamin K helps to form blood clots when you have a bad cut, and also helps to activate the proteins your body needs for cell growth and healthy bone maintenance.

An apple’s skin also contains the antioxidant quercetin, which can help lung function, ease breathing problems, and protect your lungs from irritants. Furthermore, it’s also believed to be able to fight off brain tissue damage and protect your memory.

Potatoes

 

 

A potato’s skin packs more iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, vitamin B6, and vitamin C than the rest of the potato. For example, 100 grams of potato peel packs seven times more calcium and 17 times more iron than the same amount of potato flesh. Throw away the skin, and you’ll lose up to 90% of a potato’s iron content and half of its fiber.

Oranges

 

The peel of an orange packs twice as much vitamin C than the fruit inside. It also has higher concentrations of vitamin B6, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and riboflavin. The peel’s flavonoids have anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties.

As nutritious as orange peels are, you’re probably not going to want to start eating oranges whole as the peel is bitter and hard to digest. Instead, grate the peel and sprinkle it on to of a salad or in a vinaigrette dressing.

Cucumbers

 

The skin contains most of the cucumber’s antioxidants, insoluble fiber and potassium. It also contains most of the vitamin K. The next time you have a salad, make it a point not to peel your cucumbers.

Kiwis

 

 

You’ve probably been spooning out the green flesh from inside your kiwis for years, but this fruit’s fuzzy exterior is also edible. In fact, the skin contains more flavonoids, vitamin C, and antioxidants than the fruit – and double the fiber. So, ditch the spoon, wash the kiwi, and eat it like a peach.

Eggplant

 

An eggplant’s purple color comes from a powerful antioxidant known as nasunin, which helps to protect against cancer, especially in the brain and other parts of the nervous system. It’s also believed to have anti-aging properties.

Eggplant skin is also rich in chlorogenic acid, a phytochemical that boasts antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and promotes glucose tolerance.

Mango

 

Researchers have found that mango skin contains properties that are similar to Resveratrol, which helps to burn fat and inhibits the production of mature fat cells. Mango flesh was also tested, but this did not produce the same results, which suggests that you need to eat the skin in order to get this beneficial property.

Mango peel also contains larger quantities of polyphenols, omega-3, and polyunsaturated fatty acids than its flesh. Mango skin also contains compounds that fight off cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Mango skin can be eaten raw, or cooked along with the insides. Another way to eat both the flesh and the skin is to pickle the entire mango.

Carrots

 

 

Since the skin of a carrot is the same color as what’s beneath it, the peel and its flesh have similar nutritional value. However, the highest concentration of phytonutrients is found in a carrot’s skin or immediately underneath. Just wash the carrot rather than peeling it.

Onions

 

 

Like apple and mango skin, an onion’s skin contains quercetin. Although the skin is not directly edible, you can draw out some of its nutrients by adding it to a stock.

Banana

 

 

Banana peel contains a lot more fiber than banana flesh, and is just as rich in potassium. The peel also contains lutein, a powerful antioxidant that plays a key role in maintaining healthy eye function. The amino acid, known as tryptophan, is also more concentrated in the peel than in the flesh. This amino acid helps to ease depression by increasing the body’s levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain that affects mood.

Although the peel has a bitter taste and a tough, ropey consistency, an overripe banana becomes thinner, sweeter, and easier to chew. You can also put the peel through a juicer with the rest of the banana. Or, you can boil the peel for several minutes to make it softer, or throw it in the frying pan.

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Amazing Library In China

China Opens World’s Coolest Library With 1.2 Million Books, And Its Interior Will Take Your Breath Away

Nobody likes to be watched while they’re trying to read a book, but we’re willing to make an exception if it means getting to visit this stunning new library in China, because as you can see below, the incredible structure has a giant spherical auditorium in the middle that looks just like a giant eye.

Located in the Binhai Cultural District In Tianjin, the five-story library, which was designed by Dutch design firm MVRDV in collaboration with the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI) and has since been dubbed “The Eye of Binhai”, covers 34,000 square metres and can hold up to 1.2 million books. Taking just three years to complete, the library features a reading area on the ground floor, lounge areas in the middle sections and offices, meeting spaces, and computer/audio rooms at the top. We’re not sure how much studying we’d get done though – we’d be far too busy marveling at the awesome architecture!

This isn’t the first time we’ve written about the endlessly creative MVRDV. Click here to read about their giant scaffold staircase and here for their beautiful market hall in Rotterdam.

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Today Kids Will Never Understand The Problems Of Kids From Past Generation

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Waiting to hear a song. If you wanted to hear a song you had to wait around for the radio station to play it. Perhaps going so far as to call the radio station and request playing it. If you were truly intrepid and didn’t want to have to wait around like a sucker again, you’d record the song onto a blank cassette tape, if you had a stereo with a tape deck and a radio. Otherwise, you’d hold a tape recorder up to the radio and be quiet so as to not capture any extra noise. It was ridiculous. Today, the entirety of recorded music is available on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, and other services. You can listen to any song you want, exactly when you want to. Well, if you’re a “premium” member. If you’re running the free version, you may have to wait out a 15 second commercial.

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Poring over catalogs. Then, as now, kids that really, really want a toy or a game or whatever generally have to wait until their birthday or the holidays to actually get it. In the ’80s and early ’90s the only way to vicariously enjoy the toy—and also kill time until its potential arrival—was to stare at a picture of it in the Sears Wishbook or the big Toys R’ Us catalog. Yes, there are still catalogs full of toys today, but no kid is going to look at that when they could watch unboxing videos, and kids playing with the toy, on YouTube.

3

Working hard to look at naked people. As kids—particularly heterosexual boys—hit puberty, their interest in the toy section of the Sears catalog wanes, and they start looking at the bras and underwear pages. That was one of the few places were a young gentleman could find titillating visual material. It was either that, or maybe Dad had some old Playboys in the garage. Or you could sneak out of your room after your parents were asleep, sneak into the TV room, and try to catch the glimpse of a naked person on the scrambled Playboy Channel. This is all so cute and quaint when compared to how today’s Internet is a free, open, pornographic cornucopia.

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Dealing with terrible phones and sharing them. The majority of American have given up their landlines in favor of cell phones. Kids have their own smartphones these days, and if they want to talk to their friends or a crush, they totally can without the embarrassing entanglements of phone use in the days of yore—no bad cordless phone reception if you move more than 10 feet away from the case, no tangled cords if the phone wasn’t cordless, and no parents picking up the extension to talk and embarrass. Of course, people text and stuff now instead of actually talking on the phone, but still—kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it with the phone privacy.

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Buying a whole album for one song. The death of physical media means anybody can have a much larger music collection—if it’s stored on a computer or a phone it takes up weigh less space than records, tapes, or CDs. The beauty of iTunes also means that you can buy one song. When Apple debuted the service in the early 2000s, it was right after a period where the music industry slowly phased out the single—if you wanted to purchase a hit song by, say, the Goo Goo Dolls or Harvey Danger, you had to spend $16 and get the whole album…which may not have been good because you couldn’t listen to it before you bought it. Today, anybody can buy the songs they want for a buck a piece.

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Having lousy research options. Homework has always been a necessary evil, but it has to be easier these days because of the internet. The entirety of all human knowledge is readily available. This beats the old research resources of whatever the local library had, or your parents decade-old set of World Book encyclopedias.

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Photography being an expensive crapshoot. The camera phone revolutionized photography. Do you realize how amazing it is that you can take a picture, immediately see if it’s good or not, and then, if it’s bad, delete it and then take a new one…for free? Exposures were once very precious. You’d buy a roll of film had 12, 24, or 26 chances. You’d take a snap and wouldn’t really be sure if the photo turned out well or not until after you’d taken it to a photo processing lab, waited a couple of days, paid the lab money, and then opened the envelope of pictures.

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