Hello,
Today I post about one of my favorite fruit – avocado. I don’t remember exactly when this delicious fruit came to my foodlist, but I deffinetly know, it wasn’t very long time ago. I didn’t know anything about it when I was living with my parents (15 years back or so..)
Avocado is full of nutrients, vitamins and various minerals that human body needs. It deserves reputation as a super food. This fruit also offers over 14 minerals, essential amino acids, fibre, vitamin C, B6, E, K and much more.
Avocado may help prevent breast cancer.
Eating avocados has benefits for eye-health over the long term.
Eating avocado may help you to lose weight.
Avocados contain potassium and good fats, which can help those who suffers from high blood pressure.
Avocados can be a good way to help regulate blood sugar level.
Avocado is a indispensable food for pregnants, as it’s folic acid, which is very important for forming baby’s nervous system and brain. So eat delicious avocados and get your vitamins the natural and healthy way – I defo will keep that in mind :)
It is often recommended as a baby food.
Avocado is also known as an alligator pear. Although there are close to 500 avocado plant varieties, but most known are:
Hass, the most popular one – California avocados. The first hass avocado tree was planted over 100 years ago. It’s skin is darker, much softer than rest of types, velvety and creamy. Hass is perfect to use for guacamole, avocado toast, warm pesto sauce.
My favorite also for this recipe:
https://steemit.com/food/@furious-one/weekend-food-post-breakfast-avocado-toast-experiment
Choquette – Florida Avocados. Less fat than hass has. Green skin, an oval shape, harder inside. The Florida avocado may be used just a few cases, when slicing and dicing or cutting cubes for salads.
Bacon - thin green skin, an oval-shape, light taste, easy peeling. Their flesh is pale yellow-green, and it is less oily than hass avocados, with a buttery and creamy texture.
Fuerte - high quality California avocado. It is smooth, medium-thin, pear-shape, skin peels easily, pale green flesh. The flesh can be used as a butter, served on toast or added to sandwiches.
Gwen - skin is thick, like the hass avocado, but has a an oval shape, color darkens to almost black. They are most in use for guacamole.
Lamb hass - Also from California. It is symmetrical oval-shaped with a small to medium seed, larger than most othes avocados, skin is very dark, almost black. Slightly nutty and creamy taste.
Reed - it is a large round-shape fruit shape, thick green skin, good taste.
Zutano - Skin is shiny, thin and yellow-green color. Pear-shape. The flesh is a pale green and flavor is light.
You can add them to salads and various sorts of recipes, or you can simply take them out with a spoon and eat them plain, add lemon or lime juice, lemon-pepper...
As well as being delicious to eat, avocados are used in health and beauty products including hair conditioners, face and hands treatment.
Hairs - great treatment for dry, damaged and frizzy hair.
I have tryed this one - mashed avocado and mixed it with one egg yolk, coconut oil and massage the mixture into scalp and hair, leave in for 15 minutes, then wash it off.
Well – I must say, it didn’t came off very easily and I found peaces of avocado in my hair much later while combing my hairs. Maybe I didn’t wash it off quite well. Anyway..
Skin - The avocado’s oil gives you protection for your skin from the harmful UVA and UVB rays and environmental damage, thanks to a high content of anti-oxidants. Just mash one ripe avocado and apply it to your face, especially heels, elbows and neck as a mask for 5-10 minutes. Also can mix it with cucumber and/ or aloe vera gel. Then wash off and enjoy beautiful, healthy, fresher, soft and glowing skin.
Hands and nails
Moisturize your hands, mix some mashed avocado with sugar and, then rub gently into your hands, nails and cuticles and leave on for about 5 minutes, then wash off without soap, just warm water. It will leave your hands feeling silky smooth, nails will become stronger and healthier.
NB
The avocado tree can be grown at home and used as a decorative houseplant.
But before doing that, please remember that avocado leaves, bark and skin, are documented to be harmful or even can kill when they are consumed to cats, dogs, cattle, goats, rabbits, rats, birds, fish and horses.
Thank you for stepping by :)
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