Avocado Nutrition Information
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Avocado Nutrition
Avocados are a surprisingly complete food, with fourteen
minerals to stimulate growth, including iron and copper
for your blood. The sodium and potassium in avocados
keeps your body chemically balanced, and their low sugar
content and absence of starch make them an ideal fruit
for diabetics or hypoglycemics (choose small slices
throughout the day to keep your sugar balanced).
Vitamins in avocados include A, several B-complex, C,
and E, as well as phosphorus and magnesium. They’re also
a great source of antioxidants like vitamins E and C.
Because of their density, avocados, like bananas, are
filling. But they are also a perfectly digestible
slow-burning fuel, making them ideal for replenishing
nutrients for athletes. They’re a great source of
fruit oil and digestible fats, and they make excellent
and healthy dips for raw vegetables. When blended with
fruit, they make particularly nutritious baby food.
Avocados are also called alligator pears because of
their shape and the color of their skin. The four
hundred varieties of avocado are found throughout Mexico
and South America. After planting an avocado tree,
you’ll have to wait two to three years for it to bear
fruit, but it’s worth the wait.
Picking and preparing avocadoes
A perfect avocado is hard to choose in the store;
because they go so quickly through ripeness into over
ripeness, you’re better off picking slightly unripe ones
and letting them ripen on the counter with your bananas.
Ideal avocados to purchase are dark green and hard, and
they brown slightly and become slightly soft to thumb
pressure as they ripen. Remove the flesh by cutting the
fruit in half lengthwise. If you twist it open from
here, the large pit easily comes out of one side, and
all you have to do is twist it out of the other side
with a knife.
Replace butter with avocado spread, or use avocado dip
and raw vegetables to replace your chips and ranch
dressing.
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