Avocado too raw can be eaten. Avocado is a tropical fruit with high nutritional value. Consumption of raw avocado taste poor, hard flesh, with a bitter flavor, it is best to eat with other foods. Such as avocado milk honey drink. In addition to raw fruit consumption can also be used as dishes and canned. Freshly picked avocado is green, the flesh is very hard, placed at room temperature until the skin becomes black, soft to eat as appropriate.

Native to tropical America; China Guangdong (Guangzhou, Shantou), Hainan (Haikou), Fujian (Fuzhou, Zhangzhou), Taiwan, Yunnan (Xishuangbanna) and Sichuan (Xichang) and other places have a small amount of cultivation. It is also cultivated in the Philippines and the southern part of the former Soviet Union and central Europe. Fruit for a high nutritional value of the fruit, containing a variety of vitamins, rich in fat and protein, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and other content is also high, in addition to eating as a fruit can also be used as dishes and canned; kernel fat oil, non-drying oil, with a mild aroma, specific gravity of 0.9132, saponification value of 192.6, the value of iodine 94.4, non-saponification of 1.6% for food, medicine and make-up for industrial use.