National Day May 4 Food & Drink

National Candied Orange Peel Day

On National Candied Orange Peel Day, the farmstand wins. Eat it out of hand, put it in a pie, share a bowl with a neighbor.

How to celebrate

Small, doable ways to celebrate National Candied Orange Peel Day.

  • Pick up candied orange peel at a farmers market this week.
  • Make one simple thing with it — a galette, a smoothie, a salad.
  • Send a kid home with a bag of it, fruit-bowl style.
  • Try a new variety you've never bought before.
  • Share whatever you can't eat before it goes.

Celebration ideas by audience

For families

Do a tasting with three varieties and pick a family favorite.

For kids

Let them help choose at the market and prep it at home.

For couples

Make one simple recipe together — fruit salad, galette, smoothie, anything.

At the office

Bring a real fruit platter, not the sad office kind. It disappears fast.

At school

Tie it into a nutrition lesson or a simple classroom tasting.

In your community

Donate fresh produce to a food pantry — it's always needed and often missing.

On your own

Eat it at peak, slowly, outside if the weather allows.