9 amazing facts about avocados that you don’t know

Avocados are trendy fruit. This delicious food is a difficult to renounce temptation thanks to their creamy texture and their exceptional taste, but the best is that avocado is a healthy temptation, moreover, a delicious fruit that everybody loves, even children! Avocado’s benefits are well known, and it worth to take advantage of them while enjoying this fruit as it is rich in vitamins and it contributes in regulating cholesterol,  reducing “bad” cholesterol levels and increasing “good” cholesterol ones.

To eat a fresh avocado is no the only way to enjoy its taste and its benefits. When the fruit is ripe, it can be added to many different recipes. One of the most popular ways to eat avocados is to put some avocado slices on a piece of warm bread (it is possible enrich this simple recipe by adding some extra ingredients), avocado’s salads, bakery and guacamole, of course.

It is cleat that avocados are trendy, and everyone knows them as well as everyone knows some things about them. But: Do you think that you know everything about avocado? Before saying “yes”, take a look at this list with nine amazing facts about avocados, it is possible that you realise you don’t know as much as you think after all…

 

9 amazing facts about avocados. Do you know that…?

 

1.     There should not be avocado nowadays

 

Avocado is an example of what scientist call “evolutionary anachronism”, it means, it is fruit that should not exist today, but it does! It comes from Cenozoid, when there where big animals which could ate a whole product. These animals, or better said, their digestive systems, spread the seeds.

Big mammals disappearance endangered many plants, such as palta, the tree which produces avocado, but it resisted so we can buy avocados now-a-day.

 

2.     Alligator’s pear is toxic to many animals

 

Food of extint big mammals and many humans’ favourite fruit, but it is toxic to many animals.

It is important to take into account as it is toxic to animal in general, including pets. It is advisable to avoid feeding our pets with recipes which include avocado.

 

3.     It is fruit, not vegetable

 

Due to an amazing versatility, many people doubts if avocado is fruit or veggie. But it is fruit, in detail, a versatile fruit that can be added both to sweet and salty recipes.

 

4.     The stalk can tell us if avocado is ripe

 

How can we know if avocado is ripe or not? It is simple by checking its stalk. By removing the stalk we can be certain of the degree of ripeness of the fruit:

• Hard to remove: Wait for a while!
• Easy to remove and green inside: Time to enjoy!
• Easy to remove but brown or black inside: Too late!

 

5.     No problem if it is not ripe

 

There is a simple procedure to make a delicious fruit from an unripe avocado, moreover it is a natural way and it works quickly!  The only think to do is to put unripe avocado into a paper bag and to put some other fruit too, then we just have to wait two or three days.

This trick is not useful to ripe avocado, but it works with many other fruit.

 

6.     Avocado is superfood

 

Avocado is delicious, and that is very good, but its exceptional taste is not the best of this fruit. Nutritional facts are the very best of avocados. Benefits of eating avocado regularly are a lot, in fact as much to consider avocado as superfood.

 

7.     Avocado is a generic denomination

 

When we say avocado, we are thinking about a kind of fruit, but when planning to include avocados as a part of a healthy diet we can enjoy different textures and tastes, as there are many varieties of avocados.

So we can take advantages of the variety of products to make tasteful dishes that are not always the same.

 

8.     They are considered the “Green Gold” of Mexico

 

Avocado is originary from Mexico, then it reaches the World and today we can find alligator’s pears everywhere. Anyway, avocado is considered a pillar of Mexican economy.

Export and selling of avocados let lots of benefits to Mexican economy, but Mexicans obtains benefits from many other uses of avocados and their trees, for example: cosmetic or wood.

 

9.     Avocados are grown in Spain too

 

Despite avocado is from Mexico, it is not always easy to transport fruit so that final customers enjoys it when it is perfectly ripe. It is common to harvest fruit when it is unripe, and it is not a guarantee at all, as many time sold fruit is over ripe.

But Mexico is not the only place where avocado’s plant grown. There is an European region with fantastic weather so tropical fruit, for example avocado, grow , this region is La Axarquía Malagueña.

A good option is to buy avocados from la Axarquía Malagueña between December and May, because this period is the best time to find fresh fruit. Anyway you can eat avocados every day of the year!