What you see: Hard, sand-like bumps or a gritty texture on your egg’s shell. What it is: Calcium carbonate deposits. Eat or toss: The egg is fine. Large
She cut open a pepper and water gushed out?!?
What you see: Water spilling out of your pepper when you slice it open What it is: It’s hard to say for certain, but if the pepper otherwise looks fine, it
Hard, white area in onion?
What you see: An onion with a thick, white “core” What it is: An especially prominent onion stem Eat or toss: Cut around the stem area; it will be too thick and
Green areas inside your carrot?
What you see: Green inside your carrot What it is: Chlorophyll that developed after excess sun exposure Eat or toss: If it’s just a green ring, like you see
Yep, that greenish “dirt” on your kale is caterpillar droppings
What you see: A greenish brownish, maybe wet "dirt" on your kale leaves. What it is: Caterpillar poop. Eat or toss: If the kale is otherwise healthy looking,
Dark scratch on grapefruit
What you see: A dark, scratched-out-looking spot on your grapefruit. What it is: Probably an injury from the harvest process. Eat or toss? Eat! As long as
The carrots split!
What you see: A carrot that’s split What it is: The carrot literally cracked under pressure Eat or toss: Eat! It’s perfectly fine. Why is it OK to eat
Potatoes with stems?!?
What you see: A papery, dried stem-y bit attached to your potato. What it is: The remnants of a stem that should have fallen off. Eat or toss: Pinch or cut it
That white, milky onion juice?
What you see: Milky juice coming out of your onion as you chop. What is it: Onion juice! Eat or toss: Eat! This is a perfectly fine onion. Milky onions are
A carrot with a white center
What you see: A carrot with a white "core."What it is: A perfectly fine, two-toned carrot Eat or toss: Eat! Here's why it's entirely OK to eat a carrot with
Green caterpillars hanging in the broccoli jungle
What you see: Green wormy grubs in broccoli, maybe even left behind in your cooking water (where they probably turned white). They may have also eaten away at
There’s a worm in my turnip!
What you see: A worm thing burrowing in your turnip What it is: A maggot! Specifically, a root maggot. Eat or toss: Cut around the maggot and its trails. The
Black strings in your mango?
What you see: Black veins running through mango flesh. What it is: Darkened vascular canals! Eat or toss? Cut around them if you’d like, but the mango is still
Gasp! Weird spots on your potato
What you see: Spots on your potato’s skin; they likely each have a larger outer circle and a dot at the center. What it is: An infection of the little
You can eat lettuce with little brown spots like these
What you see: Brown dots on your lettuce, especially along the lower parts of the ribs. What it is: Russet spotting! Eat or toss: Eat! This is harmless (for
White stuff just under mango peel?
What you see: A mottled white, maybe gray-ish film just under the mango skin; possibly also darkened areas on the peel. What it is: A scalded mango. Eat or