| Is avocado a fruit or a vegetable? | | | | mono-unsaturated fat. |
| If you ever wondered, yes an avocado is a fruit and | | | | Once a luxury food item eaten only by royalty, |
| 4 reasons that make it a fruit is: | | | | avocados are now enjoyed by everyone. Brazilians |
| One, an avocado is a Persea, which is a genus of | | | | like to add avocados to their ice cream, while the |
| about 150 different evergreen trees that belong to | | | | Filipinos like to puree their avocados with sugar and |
| the laurel family (Lauraceae). This region is known for | | | | milk to make a desert drink. avocados are available |
| its fruit, and the avocado is the best known member. | | | | year round and California is the leader in avocado |
| Two, like all other fruit, avocados grow in tropical or | | | | production, producing 90% of the nations avocados. |
| temperate climates. | | | | San Diego county is considered the avocado capital in |
| Three, the name "avocado" also means fruit. Basically | | | | America, because it produces 60% of all avocados |
| a large berry. | | | | grown in California. There are 7,000 avocado groves |
| Four, avocados go well with desert items like other | | | | in California and a single Californian avocado tree can |
| fruit. You can add it to ice cream, or puree it with | | | | produce around 500 avocados (200 pounds of fruit) |
| sugar and milk to make a desert drink. | | | | a year. |
| The avocado originated in south-central Mexico | | | | Most avocados darken when they are ripe. Also |
| around 7,000 B.C. There are seven different varieties | | | | most avocados when ripe, yield to pressure. Look for |
| of avocados grown in California. The Hass, by far is | | | | fruit that is average to large, oval-shaped and heavy. |
| the most popular kind of avocado accounting for | | | | To prepare an avocado, slice it open and remove the |
| 95% of the total crop. The California Hass avocado is | | | | seed, then peel the skin from the flesh. The texture |
| most popular because of its creamy texture and rich | | | | of the flesh should be silky smooth and the color of |
| flavor. avocados are not a vegetable, they are a | | | | the flesh should be a rich green color. Like other fruit, |
| fruit. avocados are sodium and cholesterol free with | | | | avocados have different varieties available as |
| only 5 grams of fat per serving, mostly | | | | certified organic fruit. |