How do you select avocados, and how do you eat them for the most nutrition?

Avocado, also known as butter fruit, alligator pear, avocado pear, and cream fruit. Many friends always see it in the market but rarely buy it; in fact, its taste is fairly similar to that of a persimmon. The seed is egg-shaped, yellowish-brown, glossy, with the scar lateral and oblong. The flowering period is June, and the fruiting period is October. So how do you select an avocado? How do you eat avocado for the most nutrition?

1. How do you select an avocado?

1. Look at the color

The taste of an avocado is determined by its oil content, and generally a fully ripe one tastes especially good. So an avocado is much like a persimmon: the longer it is kept, the better it tastes. Generally, choosing the black ones is best, because they are already fully ripe. Although they do not look attractive, they taste good, so do not pick the green ones, which taste astringent.

2. Feel the texture

Generally, the better-tasting avocados are the darker ones, but some avocados that are overripe or even already spoiled are also this color, so at this point you need to be careful not to pick a bad one; a bad avocado cannot be eaten. Then we cannot just look at the color, we also need to feel the texture. If it is too hard, it is generally unripe and does not taste good, and it needs to be kept at home for a while. There is also another kind that is too soft, which may be a bad avocado, so it also should not be bought. Generally, when buying them, choose avocados that are just right in firmness, so that after a few days they will be ready and taste especially good.

3. Touch its rough outer surface

Avocados are fairly rough, and their outside has many uneven little bumps with pits. Although they look rather unattractive, only ones like this taste best. If the surface is fairly smooth and flat, it means this avocado may have been diseased before, so it cannot be eaten.

4. Pull off its stem and take a look

When selecting, we can also check whether it is good by looking at its stem. If the color at the junction between its stem and the fruit is dark brown, it means this avocado is already spoiled, or it is overripe and therefore not so fresh, so it cannot be eaten.

5. Those with wounds on the outside also cannot be bought

When choosing, look at whether the outer surface of the avocado has wounds. If there are some scratches or the flesh is exposed because the fruit was picked with too much force, none of these can be bought, because at this point it may already be spoiled, cannot be kept, and cannot be eaten.

2. How do you eat avocado for the most nutrition?

1. From the seasonal angle

In southern China, avocados bloom in March, and avocados mature between August and September. Therefore, summer and autumn are the best times to eat avocados. However, most avocados on our country's market are imported goods, mainly imported from South and Central Asia, and this kind of fruit can be grown all over the world, so in fact avocados can be eaten all year round.

2. From the specific time angle

(1) During the day, either before a meal or half an hour after a meal is fine

Generally speaking, during the daytime, either before a meal or half an hour after a meal is fine. However, avocado should not be chosen to eat at night. Because consumption at night is already low, and avocado is a high-energy fruit, eating it at night easily makes you gain weight. In short, apart from at night, it can be eaten at any other time.

Of course, during the daytime, choosing to eat avocado after a meal is better. Avocado is deeply loved by health-conscious groups, mainly because avocado contains a large amount of unsaturated fatty acids, which have a very good conditioning effect on the human cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system, liver system, digestive system, and so on. Eating this fruit is also meant to fully absorb the unsaturated fatty acids in avocado, so eating avocado after a meal is the best time, when the human body's blood is largely gathered in the blood vessels of the intestinal mucosa, giving the strongest and fullest absorption of the nutrients in food.

(2) After buying, let it sit for a few days before eating

Fruit should of course be eaten fresh, and this is absolutely the most correct way to eat fruit, but avocado is different. After buying avocado, it still needs to sit at home for a few days, just like kiwifruit; this kind of fruit needs to ripen after harvest, and only after ripening does avocado carry a rich cheese aroma, and only then is its texture also the best, soft and glutinous. At this point it is most suitable to eat directly as a fruit.