Heirloom Foods – Avocado, 2 Pack
R33.00
Heirloom Foods Avocados are locally and naturally grown without synthetic pesticides or herbicides. With their creamy texture and mild, buttery flavour, avocados are equally delicious simply seasoned and eaten fresh or added to salads, eggs, sandwiches and dips.
Avocado (Persea americana) is the fruit of an evergreen tree native to the Americas. Unlike most fruits, which obtain most of their calories from carbohydrates, avocado is naturally rich in fats – predominantly monounsaturated fatty acids.
Avocados also provide dietary fibre, folate, potassium and vitamins C, E and K, together with several B vitamins. In addition, they contain the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, which are naturally present in the retina of the eye.
Availability: In stock
Size
2 Avocados
Ingredients
Fresh Avocados, organically grown
- Locally grown
- No GMOs
- No synthetic pesticides
- No synthetic herbicides
Directions to Use
Cut the avocado lengthways around the stone, twist the two halves apart and remove the stone. Enjoy fresh on its own, add to salads, eggs, sandwiches or toast, or mash with lime or lemon juice, herbs and seasoning to make homemade guacamole.
What Makes Avocado Different from Most Fruits?
Botanically, avocado is a fruit – more specifically, a berry with a single large seed. Nutritionally, however, it is quite different from most of the sweet fruits we commonly eat.
While fruits such as apples, oranges and grapes contain very little fat, avocado naturally contains a substantial amount. Most of its fat content is oleic acid-rich monounsaturated fat, the same predominant type of fatty acid found in olive oil.
This combination of healthy fats and fibre gives avocado its distinctive creamy texture and makes it an unusual member of the fruit world.
Did You Know?
Avocados ripen after they are picked
Avocados are unusual because the fruit matures on the tree but generally softens and develops its familiar eating texture after harvesting.
Want to ripen an avocado more quickly?
Place a firm avocado in a paper bag with a banana or apple. These fruits release ethylene, a natural plant compound involved in ripening, which can help speed up the process.
Avocado can help us absorb nutrients from other vegetables
Here’s another reason avocado works so well in salads. Carotenoids such as beta-carotene and lutein are fat-soluble, so dietary fat helps the body absorb them.
Adding avocado to a colourful vegetable salad therefore provides more than flavour and creaminess – its natural fat can also increase the absorption of fat-soluble carotenoids from the other vegetables in the meal.
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