Avocado on the gustatory qualities and external signs reminds rather a vegetable though is very useful fruit. Pulp of mature avocado has gentle consistence and a delicate taste with nut notes.
Structure of avocado
Fruits can have the pear-shaped, oval or spherical form, length of fruit reaches ten centimeters. The thin skin of avocado has dark green color, dense to the touch. In the center of a fruit there is a large kernel. This fruit by right is considered a useful and nutritious product.
Avocado caloric content on 100 grams is 120 kilocalories, from them 30 grams are the share of vegetable fats which are very useful to health. They favorably affect health of vessels and heart, reduce cholesterol level in blood.
Avocados use in vegetarian kitchen as fruits are capable to replace eggs and meat. Ripe fruits add to salads, rolls, soups, cold appetizers, use in cookery.
Fruits of avocado are rich with mineral substances, contain in them: potassium, calcium, sodium, manganese, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, aluminum, iodine, copper, fluorine and zinc. Also the vitamin structure in avocado isn't less rich: vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, PP, B5, B6, C, K, B9 (folic acid). Avocado is a champion on the content of vitamin E which promotes enrichment of cages with oxygen and interferes with their fast aging.
From the resung fruits of avocado receive oil which is applied in cookery and the cosmetic industry.
Advantage of avocado
This surprising fruit ozdoravlivayushche influences different bodies of a human body. Avocado, thanks to the high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, reduces risk of developing of cardiovascular diseases, improves memory. Potassium saves from stresses and normalizes water-salt exchange, helps the correct work of heart. Fruits of avocado are recommended to be included in a diet to the people suffering from the increased arterial blood pressure. At consumption of avocado the ability to concentration of attention, working capacity increases, irritability decreases, there passes fatigue and drowsiness, the general health improves. Such influence can be explained with the fact that fruits contain a mannogeptuloza which reduces glucose level in blood and promotes its good assimilation by cells of a brain. Avocado has antioxidant properties, protecting human cages from influence of radicals, interfering with process of aging of an organism. Leaves and seeds of avocado also have useful properties. Their broth is used for treatment of enterokolit, dysentery and chronic colitis.