The video explains that the entire fig, including the skin, is edible and can be quite flavorful, with some varieties offering unique tastes and textures. It highlights the importance of ensuring figs are fully ripe before eating, as underripe figs may have bitter or grassy-tasting skin. When a fig is ripe, the skin melds with the pulp, making it difficult to peel and enhancing the overall eating experience. The video also suggests that the skin may contain valuable nutrients, so it’s worth including in your diet. Finally, it provides a simple method for enjoying figs by splitting them open from the bottom and avoiding the stem.
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Introduction to Fig Season (0:00):
Discussing the peak of fig season and addressing common questions about which parts of a fig are edible.
Eating Fig Skin (0:32):
Explaining that fig skin is edible and often flavorful, with some varieties offering unique tastes and textures.
Ripeness and Skin Peeling (1:49):
Highlighting that if the skin is easily peelable, the fig is likely underripe; ripe figs have skin that melds with the pulp.
Nutritional Value and Taste (3:01):
Emphasizing the importance of eating the skin for its nutrients and noting that underripe figs may have a bitter or grassy taste.
How to Eat a Fig (4:47):
Providing a method for eating figs by splitting them open from the bottom and avoiding the stem.
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23 Comments
I used to always peel figs. This year I've actually been able to pick a few and they are so good that I now enjoy the skin too.
Kind of like a grape or peach skin, it's part of the experience.
You could peel it, but you only will get part of the happiness then.😢
I never imagined this was even a question.
Love the skin on black celeste that one been amazing for me and one of the first to ripen
Always eat whole ,fig skinning heard first time’s ,well you r research minded .
I am a Spaniard from the warm South (Andalucía), where fig trees thrive. We do peel the large green figs (brevas), as they have a tougher, not sweet skin, but eat the dark purple ones (higos) whole, as their skin is much finer and sweet.
I now live in SE Virginia and have kept a couple fig trees in pots for a few years. They have not really thrived or grown much at all and produced one a handful of figs that never reached maturity, either eaten up by squirrels or fallen off. But I will be planting them on the ground after I purchase a home in a few months. I can wait to see my trees growing and will keep watching your vids in the meantime.
I come in here just to come see Mr Ross 😂
Just pull them apart and gorge yourself 😂!!!
Ants inside your figs? Split the fig and blow the vermin away , then eat the fig!
as I told you before fig is native to our city ( Qom, Iran) and we believe that fig's skin clears the clone from fungus and bacteria. that's what we learnt from our ancestors. Thank you❤
What a question! I grew up on fig trees, over 15 varieties, and I never imagined someone to ask if the skin of the fig is edible. Do you peel a strawberry?
Our Celeste trees years ago were delicious with the skin when over-ripe and shriveled in the hot sun. If I picked a less ripe one I`d eat just the interior because the skin would sting your mouth. Only two of these huge trees fed several of my relative`s homes and there were always plenty for fresh eating, preserves mixed with strawberries. and candied figs too. But there were no squirrels around these trees because we made a lot of squirrel dumplings & gumbo. The birds only ate a few…mainly some old Mockingbirds that nested in the area who were almost tame.
Hi Ross. Fall is coming and bringing cool wet weather with it. You have commented that rain soaks into figs and reduces the flavor. Should I install a transparent tarp over the fig trees to allow sunlight in but not rain and water them by hand at soil level? Or would that type of action only be needed within a couple days of final ripening. Or not at all. Thx
Those figs looked really tasty. And "It's like natures pastry" lol 2:56
I'm new to figs, so I just bought three random varieties 6 months ago, stuck them in a pot outside, and can already see lots of figs developing on them!
the three I got are: Adriatic JH, Vasilika Mavra, and Nerucciolo D’Elba
Cyprus we know
I eat them all. My butter fig tree has a lot of fruits this year. Figs fruit are delicious
Thanks I love fig scented skin care. What's a good cheese to pair with figs.😊
Just bite it and enjoy 😂
Im elergic to figs .
Ross, how to cope with worms inthe figs? some seasons worms occurs, some years they dont.
Great post as usual. Are you going to be at the Staten Island Fig Fest this year?
Some of my Brown Turkey figs are almost ripe but mushy and sour. Phoenix AZ