Text/Ding Yanling
"wow! That glass of green juice looks very special. What's that smell? People who see butter juice for the first time will be shocked by its bright green color, but as long as they taste it, they usually fall in love with its special and rich flavor. In fact, avocado is not native to Taiwan Province Province. At first, it was successfully introduced from Hawaii by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation on 1922. Later, the predecessor of the Council of Agriculture 1954 was introduced from the United States and popularized in the Chiayi Agricultural Experimental Branch.
Rich in monounsaturated fat, preventing coronary heart disease.
Because avocado itself has no sour and sweet taste, it is not suitable for heating, otherwise it will easily cause bitterness. Therefore, the general way to eat abroad is to cut into pieces and mix them with vegetables when they are ripe, or mash them, add yogurt, and mix them with sauce and cornflakes.
Avocados are rich in oil and were called "poor people's cream" or "forest cream" in early America. But don't worry that avocados will hurt people if they eat too much oil. Nutritionist Liu Chunjun said that although the fat content of avocados is much higher than other fruits, they are monounsaturated fats, which can reduce the cholesterol (commonly known as bad cholesterol) carried by low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and prevent the risk of coronary heart disease. Therefore, even if blood is used,
In addition to preventing coronary heart disease, analyzing the nutritional components of avocado has many functions:
◆ Folic acid: prevent anemia.
◆ High potassium: It helps to control blood pressure, help to discharge excess sodium and reduce edema.
◆ Magnesium: It helps energy metabolism, and also helps to relax muscles and prevent cramps.
◆ Low sugar and high fiber: help diabetics to eat and stabilize blood sugar.
◆ Grease: It can moisten the intestines and relax the bowels.
◆ Vitamin B6 and folic acid: It can relieve premenstrual syndrome and menopausal symptoms of women and prevent anemia.
Liu Chunjun reminded that although avocado contains good fatty acids, it has a high calorie, about 80 calories per 100 g, which is more than twice that of papaya. Many people like to mix avocado with milk and even add pudding to juice, so we should pay attention to the problem of total calories. Because avocado is relatively high in calories, it is very suitable for thin patients or the elderly and children who need to gain weight. However, because avocado is high in fiber and low in sugar, and contains unsaturated oil, it can increase satiety after eating, and it is also very suitable for dieters to eat a small amount before meals to reduce appetite and carry out health management.
Can be used for treating skin ulcer and caring skin.
Wu Mingzhu, a Chinese doctor, said that avocado has different names in many Chinese medical classics, including avocado and avocado. Pear, avocado, camphor pear, crisp pear, catalpa fruit, butter fruit, lotte fruit, avocado, etc.
Avocado leaves and fruits have their own curative effects. Cold in nature and sweet in taste, it is mainly used for diuresis, relaxing bowels and dredging menstruation, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, relieving cough and asthma, relieving spasm and relieving pain. It is helpful for asthma, sore throat and cough, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, numbness of hands and feet, traumatic injury, dermatosis and skin ulcer, and can also relieve stomach spasm and dysmenorrhea.
The fruit is cool and sweet, and it is mainly used to treat thirst (diabetes), lower blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and hyperlipidemia. It is also helpful for itchy throat and dry cough, and is often used to treat dry eye, night blindness, hepatitis and jaundice. In addition, it is also very useful in women's health care, which can relieve menopausal hot flashes, blood deficiency constipation and leucorrhea.
Because avocado fruit is rich in fatty oil, it can not only be eaten, but also be used for medicinal external application or cosmetics. As long as avocado fruit is mashed and applied to dermatitis, skin ulcer or face, it has the effect of treating dermatosis and caring skin.
Drop lemon juice to prevent browning after ripening.
Because avocados are not easy to transport when they are fully ripe, farmers will pick them when their skins are still turquoise. Avocado that feels hard can be ripened and softened at room temperature, generally 5 ~ 10 days. If you put it in the refrigerator before ripening, it will not ripen normally, and it will even taste bitter.
When purchasing avocados, you should choose those with clean and heavy skin, no anthracnose spots, no rot, few scars left by fruit fly bites, and rough yellow-green or purple-black skin. When shaking the fruit, you can hear the sound of seeds shaking inside, indicating that it is ripe, or press it gently with your fingers, the fruit will sink without bouncing, and the skin will soften and shrink slightly, indicating that it can be eaten immediately. If it is slightly elastic but not too soft when pressed, it means it is moderately mature and needs to be eaten for several days.
It should be reminded that some varieties of avocado will turn from green to red-purple and then brown when they are ripe, but some varieties will not change color when they are ripe, so don't judge the maturity of avocado only by color. Moreover, don't wash it too early while waiting for maturity. It's best to wash the skin before eating, and dig out the pulp after cutting it.
Soft and ripe avocados can be placed in plastic bags and sealed in the refrigerator, which can be kept for about 3 ~ 4 days.