vegetable peels
Carrot skin remnants
Vegetable peels are the outer skins removed from vegetables during food preparation—potato peels, carrot peels, onion skins.
The term appears most often in contexts of waste disposal or composting: Toss the vegetable peels in the compost bin.
Some cooks save peels for making stock.
- food scrapsDiscarded edible remnants
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- compost binVessel for organic decay
- compost heapDecomposing organic material stack
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- compostablesfood scraps, food waste, kitchen scraps, yard waste, leaves
- leftoversleftovers, scraps, cold pizza, leftover rice, table scraps
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