I grew up with a large fruit and vegetable garden, and the produce wasn't perfect most of the time. I just cut away whatever is bruised or bad, and eat the rest. It's that easy.

The fruit in the pic. is a bit beyond bruised......

No way! It's the worst. Unless it can be turned into banana bread or pie it's back into the ground.

I generally eat around it, the fruit in the picture above is beyond bruised though.

i wouldn't throw it out just because it was bruised, but i prefer to eat fruit that isn't beat up.

Nope.

Might as well sun dry it

that fruit in the photo is beyong bruised. if i can do something else with it, like bread or pie then yes, i'll use it that way other nope. i know that's wasteful...sorry.

I will NOT eat bruised apples. The texture changes entirely! I will eat bruised berries and peaches, but that's about it. If fruit is really beat up, I try to find another way to use it...in a crisp or pie or something like that.

There are different levels of bruised. There's the little bruise that you can cut away. Then there's the more significant bruise that still lets you use the fruit in a pie or other baking. And then there's the beat the heck bruise that means someone doesn't appreciate your fruit.

I just cut around. I hate wasting!!

There's "bruised" and there's "buried in a corner of the produce shelf for five months". That fruit is rotten. In general, it would depend on HOW bruised and what type of fruit. I agree that bruised apples are gross.

Bruised like in the pic, no but a few small bruises I'll just cut out of the fruit.

That fruit was hit by a bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eww no way! I'm a little picky about what I eat. I have to observe it and smell it first! Maybe if its a tiny spot I will cut it out but if it smells rotten or if its a big bruise, no freakin way am I touching it! Btw that picture of the fruit is absolutely rotten, not bruised!

Being that I grew up in a house where we grew a lot of our own produce, funnily enough, its caused me to be wary of eating bruised fruits. Reason for this being that once the fruit was bruised in some area, it opened it up to insect infestation. The amount of mandarins I had when I was a kid with maggots in them has made me eternally wary. That and very cheap ethnics parents who refused to throw out even the most rotten food.

Now that I live in the middle of the city, I tend to buy fresh produce the day I'll be eating it when walking home. Cheap and fresh, and means I can trust whatever I eat.

it's not good to be wasteful, and you can just cut bruises out.

Bruised sometimes tastes better, to be honest! I think sometimes it sweetens the fruit or speeds up the ripening process.

But like the majority here, I'd say the featured pic is a bit more than bruised - more like rotten... I'd eat if I was extremely hungry though.

My banana was bruised this morning! I just ate around that part.

In general I cut out the bruises on apples or bananas, but if it's too much I throw it out.

Cut or eat around the part. Usually if a fruit is bruised, I cut it open to see what might be lurking inside. . .

and that fruit in the above picture is well on its way to rotting.

I can deal with mild bruising. Major bruising sends it straight to the baking/juicing/preserves pile.