What you see: Black dots on your orange peel. What it is: Peel damage of some kind. Eat or toss: If the orange looks and smells good under the peel,
Dark spots on grapefruit peel
What you see: Dark spots on your grapefruit’s peel.What it is: A lot of issues could cause dark spots, but in this case a physical injury is likely.Eat or toss:
Yellow patches inside broccoli
What you see: Yellow beads on portions of your broccoli where the florets come together. You might only see the yellow if you bend the broccoli a bit to peer
Blueish color just under your grapefruit’s peel?
What you see: A dark ring inside a cross section of your grapefruit rind. Or, if you’ve peeled the fruit, you may see a blue tinge just below the exterior peel.
Yellow broccoli
What you see: Your broccoli head is turning yellow. What it is: Overall yellowing is a sign of over mature broccoli; the broccoli could have been stored too
Brown stains on your banana?
What you see: A brown stain on your banana. What it is: A superficial “burn” from banana sap.Eat or toss: Eat! As long as the banana otherwise looks
Dark, black slightly sunken spots on mango
What you see: A sunken black spot on your mango. What it is: A fungus known as anthracnose.Eat or toss: Cut the affected area off with some relatively generous
What are those white fluffy things around some apple stems?
What you see: A white wispy thing around your apple stem. What it is: Insect webbing. Eat or toss: Wipe it off and get on with your apple-eating
How ripe is too ripe for banana bread?
What you see: A banana that is very brown and maybe a bit shriveled. What it is: A very overripe banana. Eat or toss: If you don’t see any signs of microbial
Black around center of banana
What you see: A banana with a very dark center.What it is: Most likely a stressed banana that’s still holding it together.Eat or toss: If it looks normal, but
Why are some banana peels grayish?
What you see: Your banana’s peel looks grayish and dull; it may have streaky patches of gray. What it is: Chilling injury!Eat or toss: Eat! This banana
Tiny bugs in the kale you just pulled from the fridge?
What you see: Little tiny bugs in your kale. What it is: Aphids!Eat or toss: Eat. Just rinse the kale and eat as normal. A bunch of kale, fresh from the
Can you eat a banana if the peel split?
What you see: A banana that looks mostly fine, except its skin has split. What it is: The wrong kind of banana split!Eat or toss: To be on the safe side, either
What if broccoli gets soft and floppy?
What you see: Your broccoli is bendy or floppy. It’s lost its firm texture. What it is: Water loss. Eat or toss: Eat! As long as everything else looks
Giant bump on apple
What you see: A large, knob-like protrusion on your apple. It’s woody, corky or rough. The flesh underneath it looks perfectly fine. What it is: Probably a scar
Fuzzy cauliflower?
What you see: Your cauliflower looks...fuzzy? Not like a patch of mold, but something else…What it is: The cauliflower is over mature or experienced challenging
