Avocado

About the products/19 January 2021

The Avocado is a single-seeded berry that grows on an evergreen plant in the laurel family (Persea americana). There are about 400 varieties of avocado, ranging in size from small plums to huge pound fruits.

How to choose a ripe avocado?
More often than not, you may find yourself wanting to feel an avocado in the store. Even if the avocado is soft, it may be overripe or rotten and not usable inside. Any well-ripened berry should come off the bush easily. The avocado has a stalk that should separate very easily, but not fall off on its own, and the stalk is left with a beautiful lettuce color in its place, indicating that it is ripe and fresh at the same time.

How to help avocados ripen?
From faraway lands, most avocado fruits are brought to us unripe and hard for better transportation and preservation of marketability. In case you come across unripe avocados, it is enough to put them in a paper bag together with bananas or apples, which release a special gas, with the help of which avocados ripen. Only ripe avocados should be placed in the refrigerator to stop the ripening process. Also, if you have eaten part of the avocado, and the other remains, for better storage, it is enough to put it in a container, and be sure to smear the cut side with lemon juice, so that the fruit does not darken.

What are the health benefits of avocados?
Avocado is a very calorie-dense and packed with healthy fats. It can be compared only with durian, which also has a fat component, but has a very specific odor, so it is not widespread in wide circles in European countries.

Avocado is an excellent source of fiber, 53% of the daily value in one fruit, which is very important for digestion and healthy microbiota. Avocado has a huge amount of trace elements: potassium, iron, manganese, vitamin A, antioxidants lutein, zeaxanthin. Also avocado contains a sufficient dose of vitamin K, which has anti-clotting, antithrombotic effect. In general, the need for vitamin K for humans is very high, especially if there is an imbalance in the microbiota.

Avocado is an anti-cholesterol food that is important to use when cholesterol levels are high and when there is sluggish chronic inflammation in the body.

What are the minuses of avocados?
Avocados contain high amounts of fructans, which fall under the FODMAP category. If you have excessive bacterial/fungal growth syndrome, you need to be careful about eating it.

FODMAP is the classification of the Australian Monash Institute.
FODMAP foods are foods that contain high amounts of fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, including fructans, which are poorly absorbed in the small intestine and tend to absorb water and ferment in the large intestine, causing abdominal bloating. If you have complaints of IBS, the amount of daily consumption of avocados should not exceed 1/8 , maximum 1/4 of a medium fruit. But it is more important to put in order in the GI tract and eat always with benefit and great pleasure.

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