1 What's the avocado health scam

The avocado health scam is only one part of the population's opinion.

They believe that avocado is not a healthy fruit because it has 15.3% fat and 161kcal/100g. In order to sell avocados, marketers packaged avocados as the "luxury fruit" and publicized that avocados can "protect the heart, lower cholesterol, and lose weight", which led to a dramatic increase in avocado imports into China.

2 Avocado health

Avocado is relatively healthy.

Those who think avocados are unhealthy attack avocados on the basis of their high calorie content and high fat content, as well as the marketing hype surrounding avocados.

1. Food calories are not the key to health

And dietitian Lai Yufan, in the "fat-burning power" said: This is the human body to consume, as a simple calculation of the funny logic of the problem. The calorie diet theory ignores the effect of food on the body's hormones. A high-calorie avocado (rich in healthy fats, fiber, and micronutrients) may instead make you feel very full, less hungry, and more conducive to weight loss.

A 2013 study found that adding about half an avocado to your lunch enhanced satiety and curbed hunger for the next three to five hours in overweight adults.

2. The fat composition of avocados is healthy

A typical medium-sized avocado contains about 63% monounsaturated fat, 20% more polyunsaturated fat, and 17% saturated fat.

This means that most of the fat it contains is oleic acid (a monounsaturated fatty acid, which is what olive oil is mostly made of), which can play a role in reducing inflammation, and the fat structure is very healthy.

The really harmful fats, are trans fatty acids, refined vegetable oils, hydrogenated vegetable oils, vegetable butter, margarine, margarine, most cookies, snacks and other processed foods will contain trans fats, consuming too much meal time fatty acids, prone to obesity, heart disease, chronic inflammation, insulin resistance and other problems.

The Australian documentary "A Movie About Sugar", with real experiences, recorded the impact of a high-sugar diet and a low-sugar diet containing healthy fats on the human body, the results show that the latter not only allows the human body to maintain a good state of mind, for the reduction of body weight, body fat, but also has a very good help.

3. Avocado is rich in nutrients

Each 100 grams of avocado contains vitamin A?7 micrograms, vitamin C?10 mg, vitamin E?2.1 mg, vitamin K?21 micrograms, vitamin B1?0.07 mg, vitamin B2?0.13 mg, vitamin B3?1.74 mg, vitamin B5?1.39 mg, vitamin B6? 0.26 mg, folic acid?81 mcg, choline 14.2 mg, calcium 14.2 mg, magnesium 29 mg, potassium 485 mg, protein 2 g, carbohydrates 8.5 g, fat 14.7 g. In addition, the avocado also has a lot of antioxidant phytochemicals (such as β-sitosterol, glutathione and lutein) and phytonutrients (polyphenols and flavonoids), very nutritious.

Avocado has a high potassium content, even higher than the 358 mg of bananas, and sufficient potassium, to maintain the body's potassium-sodium balance, to maintain stable blood pressure, muscle vitality, support for the nervous system, and prevention of osteoporosis, etc. have a full effect.

Avocado carbohydrates as well as fructose content is extremely low, which is a very good choice for people on a low-carbon diet, and fructose may cause harm to people to a minimum, and fructose will allow people to eat more and more, but also aggravate obesity, induced hyperlipidemia.

4. Avocado has many benefits

The monounsaturated fat in avocado can reduce inflammation, lower triglycerides, improve heart health, and reduce the risk of heart disease;

Avocado is rich in potassium, which can relax the walls of the blood vessels, and help to stabilize the blood pressure;

Monounsaturated fats in avocado have anti-inflammatory properties, which can reduce the risk of suffering from depression;

Avocados are rich in dietary fiber and healthy fats, which are good for boosting satiety and helping with weight loss;

Folic acid in avocados is essential for fetal health, preventing neurological and heart defects, and because of the high content of vitamin B6, it also helps pregnant women to overcome nausea;

The high fat content and antioxidant properties of avocados play an important role in maintaining healthy skin;

The monounsaturated fats in avocados have an anti-inflammatory effect, which can reduce the risk of depression.

The high fat content and antioxidant properties of avocado can play an important role in maintaining healthy skin;

5. Marketing hype is not a fault

Avocado is a high-quality, healthy food, and now it is the era of "fragrant wine is also afraid of deep alleys", good things also need to be through certain marketing means to be understood, and not only avocado in the marketing hype, many fruits or other things will do so, so we have to be careful. Things will do, so we can not because of the avocado marketing hype and disparage it, no false advertising has been very good.

Although the avocado has high nutritional value, but the avocado is not cost-effective, relatively expensive, the flavor is relatively odd, so we still have to choose wisely.

6. Avocado also has an unsuitable crowd

Avocado health is relative, some people are not suitable to eat avocado, such as avocado allergy, migraine headache crowd, gastrointestinal function bad crowd.

3 avocado how to get rid of the core method a

knife around the avocado kernel will be cut into two halves, break open, this time the kernel will be on one side of the flesh, and then insert a spoon into the kernel side of the flesh of about 2 centimeters, around a circle, you will be able to pry the kernel loose, dug out.

Method 2

Use a knife around the avocado kernel to cut the avocado in half, break it, this time the kernel will be on one side of the flesh.

Then cut the flesh with the kernel in half again, and you can easily break the kernel off by hand.

4 How to deodorize an avocado

Avocados are generally easy to cook, and deodorizing them takes a number of spices, such as ground black pepper, basil, rosemary, and so on.

Scrape the avocado into a paste or slice, sprinkle the surface with black pepper or basil or rosemary, etc. can be.