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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Zoe Wood

Pineapple leaf tea and potato peel soup: five ways to cut food waste

Vegetable peelings
Vegetable peelings can easily be made into sauces. Photograph: James Jackson/Alamy

With their spiky crowns of leaves, pineapples are about as close as you can get to a tropical paradise while doing the weekly shop – but now Sainsbury’s has begun selling the fruit shorn of its exotic plumage, all in the name of cutting food waste.

With the fruit’s hardy leaves usually ending up in the bin or a food waste caddy, the move shines a spotlight on waste in the home. So could the leaves, stems and skins of the fruit and vegetables we routinely throw away be put to better use in the kitchen?

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