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Apparently we've been eating apples wrong our whole lives

A viral video says the right way to eat an apple is top to bottom instead of side to side. That's right, when we eat apples by biting around the sides—as most people do—we miss out on 30 percent of the fruit. Since it's been reported that Americans waste about 40 percent of the food we buy, we love the idea of not throwing away almost a third of every apple we eat

A viral video says the right way to eat an apple is top to bottom instead of side to side. That's right, when we eat apples by biting around the sides—as most people do—we miss out on 30 percent of the fruit. Since it's been reported that Americans waste about 40 percent of the food we buy, we love the idea of not throwing away almost a third of every apple we eat—but what about the seeds? Watch this video to see the suggested technique in action, and never eat an apple the same way again:

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Alesandra Dubin is a Los Angeles-based writer and the founder of home and travel blog Homebody in Motion. Follow her on FacebookGoogle+ and Twitter.

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