avocado

Introduction

Avocado (scientific name: ButyrospermumparkiiKotschy), a deciduous tree, 10-15 meters high, with a breast diameter of 1-1.5 meters; the crown is open, with many and dense branches, the stems and branches are thick, with many knots, and often bends; the bark is thick, irregularly cracked, and has milky juice. The leaves are oblong, with rounded or blunt tips and rounded or blunt bases. When young, they are covered with rusty soft hairs on the upper surface, and then both sides are hairless. The midrib is grooved on the upper surface, rounded and very convex on the lower surface, with more than 30 pairs of lateral veins, parallel to each other, slightly convex on both sides, and thin reticulate veins; the petiole is round. The pedicel is covered with rusty soft hairs; the calyx lobes are lanceolate and covered with hairs on the outside; the flowers have a sweet smell, and the corolla lobes are ovate and entire. The berries are spherical, 3-4 cm in diameter, edible, and taste like persimmons; the seeds are oval, yellow-brown, shiny, and the scars are lateral and oblong. The flowering period is June and the fruiting period is October.

Nutritional value of avocado

Avocado is also called alligator pear, alligator pear, and oily pear. Avocado has high nutritional value and is rich in various vitamins. Ways to eat avocado include sugared avocado, cheese seafood avocado, avocado pork chops, avocado grapefruit soup, avocado shrimp fried rice, avocado ketchup, tomato avocado soup, shrimp avocado salad, and avocado baked shrimp.

Avocado pulp is rich in nutrients. Every 100 grams of avocado pulp contains 23.49 grams of fat, 5.6 grams of sugar, 1.25 grams of protein, 1.8 grams of fiber, 0.7 grams of ash, and 8 milligrams of vitamin C. It is a high-energy fruit with a nutritional value comparable to that of cream. It is also rich in various vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and phytochemicals.

The effects and functions of avocado

Avocados are a good source of folic acid (one avocado provides 57 micrograms of folic acid, or 28% of the daily intake). This important vitamin can prevent congenital neural tube defects in the fetus and reduce the probability of cancer and heart disease in adults. Avocados can beautify the skin. Avocado pulp has good affinity with human skin and is easily absorbed by the skin. It has a strong absorption of ultraviolet rays. In addition, it is rich in vitamin E and carotene, so it has good skin care, sun protection and health care effects. Avocados are high in fiber content, because soluble fiber can remove excess cholesterol in the body, while insoluble fiber helps keep the digestive system functioning normally and prevents constipation.

Medicinal Value of Avocado

Anti-oxidation and anti-aging: Avocado is rich in glyceric acid, protein and vitamins, moisturizing but not greasy, and is a natural antioxidant. It can not only soften and moisturize the skin, but also shrink pores, and form a milky isolation layer on the skin surface, which can effectively resist sunlight and prevent sunburn. Avocado oil extracted from the kernel is rich in nutrients, rich in vitamin E, magnesium, linoleic acid and essential fatty acids, which helps to strengthen cell membranes and slow down the aging of epidermal cells.

Breast enhancement: The rich unsaturated fatty acids in avocado can increase the elasticity of breast tissue. The vitamin A it contains can promote the secretion of female hormones, vitamin C can prevent breast deformation, and vitamin E can help breast development.

Protect the liver: Studies have found that avocados contain effective chemical components that may protect the liver. This discovery will help people invent new drugs to treat liver diseases.

Beauty: Avocado pulp has good affinity with human skin, is easily absorbed by the skin, has strong absorption of ultraviolet rays, and is rich in vitamin E and carotene, so it has good skin care, sun protection and health care effects.

Relieve diabetes: The sugar content of avocado pulp is extremely low, only 1/5 of the sugar content of banana. It is a rare high-fat, low-sugar food for diabetics. Drinking the peel in water can relieve diabetes.

Protect uterine health: Avocado can protect the health of women's uterus and cervix. Women who eat one avocado every week can balance estrogen, lose excess weight caused by childbirth, and prevent cervical cancer.

Baby food: Avocado is one of the good baby food.

Side effects and contraindications of avocado

Not for consumption by people with allergies

Avocado is a tropical fruit, rich in unsaturated fatty acids and protein. The protein is all plant protein and also contains some foreign protein, which is irritating to the human body. Therefore, people with allergic constitution are not suitable to eat avocado to avoid allergies.

Obese people should not eat too much

Avocado has a certain weight-loss effect, but this effect is only effective when consumed in small amounts. After all, avocado is a high-fat food. If you eat too much, the unsaturated fatty acids in the pulp will be converted into fat and stored in the body, which can easily cause obesity over time.

People with poor digestive function should not eat too much

Avocado is rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids. Most of the protein is plant protein, which is not easy to digest. Therefore, people with poor digestive function should not eat too much to avoid diarrhea, bloating and other symptoms.

Avocado should not be consumed with cold drinks

Avocado is rich in fat and is considered a "greasy" food among fruits. Therefore, it cannot be eaten with cold drinks, and you cannot eat iced avocado to avoid causing diarrhea.

Avocados should not be stored for a long time

Avocados have strong antioxidant properties and therefore cannot be stored for a long time, especially cut avocados. They will quickly oxidize and change color after coming into contact with air. Such avocados need to be eaten within 2 hours. Ripe avocados can only be stored at room temperature for 2 to 3 days. Even if they are placed in the refrigerator, they should not be stored for more than a week. They need to be eaten as soon as possible to avoid spoilage or serious loss of nutritional value.

How to eat avocado

Sugar-coated avocado

Ingredients: 1 avocado, 1 pear, 1 apple, half a bowl of sugar, 1 spoon of honey

practice:

1. Take an avocado and a pear, peel and core them. Cut them into pieces and set aside.

2. Take another apple, peel it, remove the seeds, and cut it into pieces for later use.

3. Put the apples into the pot immediately after cutting them.

4. Use half a bowl of white sugar.

5. Add one tablespoon of honey.

6. Clean the small pot, boil the fruit with half a pot of water, and add sugar and honey.

7. The fruit is cooked soft and the soup is sweet and delicious. It is simple and easy to make.

Tip: Do not cook it for too long. 3 minutes is enough.

Cheese Seafood Avocado

Ingredients: 1 avocado, 180 grams each of shrimp, scallops, and grouper meat, 1/4 cup of onion and white straw mushroom pieces, appropriate amounts of evaporated milk, coconut milk, and butter, and appropriate amount of cheese powder.

practice:

1. Cut the avocado in half lengthwise and remove the core. Scoop out the flesh and chop it into puree. Keep the shell. Add a little oil to the shrimp meat and use a blender to grind it into glue. Cut the scallops and fish into small pieces.

2. Mix shrimp paste, scallops, fish, onion and white straw mushroom together. Add evaporated milk, coconut milk and butter and mix well. Finally, mix with avocado puree to make the filling.

3. Stuff the filling into the avocado shell, sprinkle with cheese powder, and bake in a hot oven for about 10 minutes.

Avocado Pork Chops

Ingredients: 4 slices of Golden Luo boneless pork chops (cut into 1-inch thickness), 1, 5 California avocados (peeled and diced), 2 cloves of garlic, a little red pepper, 3 to 4 cups of clear chicken broth, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce.

practice:

1. Mash an avocado into puree and set aside the remaining half.

2. Dice the red pepper and mince the garlic.

3. Heat one tablespoon of oil, stir-fry minced garlic and chili over medium heat for about one minute, add chicken broth and soy sauce, turn to low heat and simmer for three minutes, then gradually add avocado puree to the pot, stirring while cooking, and cook for another five minutes until the juice is thick, add a small amount of salt and pepper to taste.

4. Sprinkle a small amount of salt on the pork chops, put them into a frying pan and fry until both sides are golden brown. When the meat is cooked, place it on a warm plate. Heat the avocado sauce over low heat and pour it on the pork chops.

Avocado Tomato Sauce

Ingredients: 3 avocados, peeled, pitted, mashed, 1 lime, juiced, 5 grams of salt, half an onion, diced, 1 handful of fresh cilantro, chopped, 2 plum tomatoes, diced, 1 clove of garlic, chopped, a pinch of chili powder (optional)

Method: Take a slightly larger bowl, add the avocado puree, lemon juice and salt and mix well. Add onion, cilantro, tomato and garlic and mix well. If you like spicy taste, add chili powder and mix well. Refrigerate for 1 hour for best taste, but you can also eat it right away.

Avocado and Grapefruit Soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of avocado, 400 grams of grapefruit, 1 cup of milk, appropriate amount of mineral water, 2 spoons of honey, 1 teaspoon of olive oil.

practice:

1. Peel and core the avocado, cut into small pieces and set aside.

2. Take the grapefruit pulp and set aside.

3. Leave a few pieces of grapefruit flesh and add all the other ingredients except olive oil into the food processor.

4. Beat into a uniform paste and divide into bowls.

5. Garnish with grapefruit pulp and drizzle with olive oil according to personal taste.

Avocado and grapefruit soup nourishes the lungs, replenishes blood, and clears the intestines. Avocado and grapefruit soup is sweet and nutritious. It has the effects of regulating qi, moistening the lungs and clearing the intestines, and nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen. The insulin-like ingredients contained in the soup have the effect of lowering blood sugar, which is very beneficial for patients with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It helps digestion, removes phlegm and quenches thirst, and regulates qi and disperses knots.

Avocado and Shrimp Fried Rice

Ingredients: 153g avocado, 100g sand shrimp, 135g rice, some black olives, some olive oil, some fish sauce, some light soy sauce

practice:

1. Ingredients: sand shrimp, avocado, black olives and rice.

2. Wash the sand shrimp, peel them, and marinate them with an appropriate amount of salt for a while.

3. Wash, peel and dice the avocado.

4. Heat the oil pan.

5. Add sand shrimp.

6. Stir-fry until it changes color, remove from the heat and set aside.

7. Pour an appropriate amount of olive oil into the original pot.

8. Add rice and stir-fry.

9. Add black olives and avocado and stir well.

10. Return the shrimps to the pan.

11. Pour in appropriate amount of light soy sauce to adjust the color and stir well.

12. Pour in an appropriate amount of fish sauce for seasoning, stir well, and turn off the heat.

13. Pour into avocado peel and serve.

Baked Shrimp with Avocado

Ingredients: 1 avocado, 50g pumpkin, 5 fresh shrimps, a little black pepper, a little mayonnaise, salt to taste

practice:

1. Prepare the materials.

2. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and remove the shrimp heads and intestines.

3. Heat the pumpkin in the microwave for 2 minutes until cooked. Put the shrimp in the pot and cook until done.

4. Peel the cooked shrimp and cut into small pieces of the same size as the pumpkin. Add salt and black pepper and marinate for 10 minutes.

5. Wash and dry the avocado, then cut it into two halves.

6. After removing the core, dig out the flesh and cut it into small pieces. Reserve the hollowed-out shell as a baking bowl.

7. Put the processed pumpkin, shrimp and avocado into a bowl.

8. Add black pepper, salt, and a little mayonnaise and mix well.

9. Re-insert into the shell.

10. Squeeze a little mayonnaise on the surface and bake in a preheated oven at 210 degrees for about 8-10 minutes until the surface turns brown.

hint:

1. Avocados must be opened and eaten fresh, otherwise they will quickly oxidize and turn yellow.

2. When cutting an avocado, make a vertical cut in the middle to the core, then make a circle and cut the lower part. Hold the avocado with your hand and rotate it to open it. When removing the core, use a knife to gently chop the core, rotate it and the core will be taken out by the knife.

3. The mayonnaise on the surface can also be replaced with cheese. The baking time remains unchanged.

Shrimp and Avocado Salad

Ingredients: 175g cooked shrimp, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 5 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 2 tablespoons chili sauce, a pinch of salt to taste, 2 avocados, cut in half and cored, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, for garnish: a few lettuce leaves, 1 teaspoon red pepper powder, a pinch of red pepper, cut into shreds.

practice:

1. Combine shrimp, shallots, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce in a bowl; season with salt.

2. Use a spoon to stuff the mixture into half an avocado, then pour lemon juice on it. Place half an avocado on the lettuce leaves sprinkled with chili powder; garnish with red pepper shreds and serve.

Tomato Avocado Soup

Ingredients: 600 grams of tomatoes, 2 spoons of tomato sauce, 150 grams of celery, 200 grams of chicken, 1 avocado, 1 coriander, 1 piece of ginger, appropriate amount of water, salt and pepper.

practice:

1. Dice celery, dice tomatoes, peel and core avocado, and cut into strips for later use.

2. Cut the chicken into pieces, add ginger and water, bring to a boil, and skim off the foam.

3. Add celery, diced tomatoes and tomato sauce and bring to a boil over high heat.

4. Reduce to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

5. Add avocado and bring to a boil over high heat.

6. Finally, add salt, coriander and pepper to season.

Tomato avocado soup is colorful, delicious, and nutritious. It is not only sweet, but also rich in vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, and phytochemicals. Tomato avocado soup has a high fiber content, which can remove excess cholesterol from the body, help maintain the normal function of the digestive system, promote the elimination of waste in the body, and moisturize the skin and whiten the face.