Apples - skin on or skin off, which is best? Please help me settle an argument.

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

DH and I are having an argument. I shan't tell you whose argument is who, tell me which one is right please.

DD is eating an apple which has been peeled. She is enjoying it.

a) One of us feels the apple does not need to be peeled, in fact should not be peeled as it has vitamins and nutrients in the skin, DD likes it with skin so peeling is pointless, and peeling the skin is wasting skin. It is potentially encouraging an unecessarily fussy way of eating which might be hard to change later.

b) The other of us feels there is nothing wrong with peeling, it adds different textures, and ways of eating apples, and it will of course not mean DD will prefer to eat apples without the skin, it will give her variety. The skin does not have lots of nutrients and vitamins, only fibre, and that the rest of the apple is as good as the skin. It is not a waste to peel the skin.

Opinions please.

Peel on for unfussy 5year old
Peeled for fussy 2 year old who will eat the apple, but wander around the house spitting out the peel in tiny little bits for me to find everywhere.

I think its a common myth that the nutrients are all under the skin in fruit and veg, doesn't make any sense?

I don't peel generally they love them but they like a squeeze of lime.. but peeled in a pud..how about what I do with cucumbers? ...stripey.. bit peeled bit of skin?