potato peels
Spud outer layers
Potato peels are the thin outer skins removed from potatoes before cooking.
They're kitchen scraps, often discarded or composted, though some cooks fry them into chips or use them in stocks.
She tossed the potato peels into the compost bin.
- skinBody's outer layer
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
- kitchen scrapsDiscarded cooking byproducts
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- compost binVessel for organic decay
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- compostablesfood scraps, food waste, kitchen scraps, yard waste, leaves
- byproductsbagasse, pomace, molasses, sawdust, bran
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- biosorbentsactivated charcoal, biochar, chitin, cellulose, lignin