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Avocados

Delicious and Nutritious Organic Avocados

Avocados are highly nutritious and flavored, and can be eaten in salads, guacamole or straight up!   They are a key staple for a delicious and nutritious diet!
 
Sometimes called the Alligator Pear for its rough-textured skin, the avocado is a rich and creamy fruit native to the tropics and subtropics – technically a big ol’ berry. It’s buttery texture and mild, faintly nut-esque flavor make for a healthy fat to be reckoned with. The fruit’s name comes from ahuacatl which is the Nahuatl word for “testicle,” most likely a reference to the avocado’s shape. The Aztecs revere the avocado as the “
fertility fruit.” At the market, you’re most likely to come face-to-face with one of two varieties: the bumpy, almost black Haas or the smooth green Fuerte (means strong in Spanish).
 
Nutritionally speaking, avocados are rife with monosataturated fat 
– the kind of fat that helps lower LDL (bad) and helps increase HDL (good) cholesterol. Prevention Magazine’s Flat Belly Diet names the avocado as one of the five all-star fats you should incorporate into your diet (yes, for a flat stomach!), providing nearly 20 essential nutrients, including fiber, potassium, Vitamin E, B-vitamins and folic acid. They also help the body absorb nutrients, such as alpha and beta-carotene and lutein, in foods that are eaten in tandem.
 
Lucky for the avocado, it has thick skin that can stave off some pesticide build up in the fruit’s edible part (but the roots of the tree can absorb pesticides and transport those to the flesh of the avocado). Unlucky for the environment, any pesticides used on our farms can turn into run-off and wreak havoc elsewhere. So while it might not be much of a personal health consideration, avocados serve the whole of us when they are bought organic, and in season.  

Recipes:
     Avocado Brownies
     Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer 
     Baked Breakfast Avocados 
​     Guacamole
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