What you see: Rough, brown apple skin, particularly around the stem, sometimes descending down the fruit in lines. What it is: Russeting. Eat or toss? Eat!
The top of my carrot is green! Can I eat it?
What you see: The top of the carrot root, just before the leaves, is green. What it is: The carrot was likely exposed to the sun, causing chlorophyll to develop
Are really brown bananas OK to eat?
What you see: A very black or dark banana. What it is: Just a very, very ripe banana. Eat or toss? Eat! Super dark bananas are great for baking breads or
Should you eat a hard-boiled egg with a greenish yolk?
What you see: An unappetizing sewage green hue to your egg yolk. What it is: Just some sulfur and iron compounds. Eat or toss? Eat! It’s overcooked, but
What’s the white stuff on cooked salmon?
What you see: White stuff oozing out of your salmon as it cooks. What it is: Perfectly edible coagulated protein. Eat or toss: Eat! Is the white stuff on
Is it safe to eat an egg that cracked during boiling?
What you see: Egg cracked during boiling, resulting in an oddly shaped egg white, and strings and clumps of egg white in the cooking water. What it is: Just
Are these chopped onions harboring scary secrets? (No)
What you see: Sliced onion in the fridge that reminds you of that scary, improbable thing you read on the Internet that one time. Even though it didn’t really
