Both creamy and tasty, avocado is definitely one of your favorite fruits. Especially since in addition to its taste and delicate texture, the latter is also very generous for our health. Antioxidant, natural appetite suppressant, energizing... The list of benefits of avocado is long.
This fruit is full of minerals, vitamins and trace elements that promote the proper functioning of the body. To enjoy it, it can be added raw in a salad or grilled on baked toast. There are four varieties of avocados: the ettinger, the fuerte, the hass and the reed. The full season of the lawyer starts in the fall and continues until the beginning of the following spring. The ripening process lasts five to seven days after the fruit has fallen from the avocado tree. You are detailed all these health virtues.
Is the lawyer good for your health?
In addition to being delicious for our taste buds, the avocado promotes the proper functioning of the body. Thanks to its richness in minerals, trace elements and vitamins, this fruit is an excellent ally for our well-being.
Is the lawyer a fruit or a vegetable?
Even if it is generally consumed as a vegetable, the avocado is actually the fruit of a tree, the avocado, native to Mexico. Mexico is still the largest avocado-producing country in the world. Nevertheless, the lawyers we find in France also come, depending on the season, from Spain, Israel or Kenya or South Africa.
Nutrition : vitamins, potassium... What are the nutritional values of the avocado?
Often considered too fatty fruit, avocado contains mainly monounsaturated fatty acids (MAFAs) in other words the "good" fats. The latter contain omega 9 that participate in the regulation of cholesterol levels in the blood.
Another benefit of the lawyer: his water wealth. Dealtering, the avocado consists of about 70g of water per 100g. This fruit also contains many minerals and contains a good amount of potassium. Phosphorus, magnesium and calcium are also found, but they are present in smaller amounts.
Nutritional intakes of avocado:
- lipids : 20.6g per 100g
- Phosphorus : 38 mg per 100g
- potassium : 430mg per 100g
- Carbohydrates : 0.3g per 100 g
- vitamin K1 : 14.5 μg per 100g
- vitamin B5 : 1.07 mg per 100g
- vitamin B9 : 70.4μg per 100g
What are the health benefits and virtues of avocado?
The avocado has many virtues, both for the cardiovascular system, and for the brain. It improves energy, boosts brain activity and also acts as a natural appetite.
Brain: Eating avocado could protect against neurodegenerative diseases
According to a study published on the National Library of Medicine in 2016, the antioxidant richness of avocados could reduce the oxidative stress present in the body. Vitamin E would prevent free radicals from accelerating premature aging of cells.
Oxidative stress can cause significant neural damage. These after-effects are notably identified in certain neurodegenerative pathologies such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Avocado consumption offers a boost of energy
The vitamin B5 contained in avocado has many virtues: it promotes energy metabolism, reduces fatigue and boosts intellectual performance. In case of a little slug, the avocado is therefore the ideal ally to recharge your energy.
Avocado would reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
Thanks to its richness in monounsaturated fatty acids, and in particular in omega 9, the avocado would regulate the level of cholesterol in the blood. These molecules would also play a role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. The antioxidant power of vitamin E contained in avocado also helps to protect the tissues and promote the proper functioning of the heart.
What are the benefits of potassium in avocado?
Potassium is present in large quantities in the avocado. This mineral has positive effects on the nervous and muscular systems. Another advantage of this element: it ensures the proper maintenance of blood pressure.
Lawyer: how many calories does it contain?
The avocado contains about 205kcal per 100g. A proportion certainly substantial but which in no way undermines the qualities of this fruit.
Food: Does the avocado lose belly?
Despite its high calorie content, avocado would be a natural appetite suppressant according to a study published in The Nutrition Journal in 2014. According to the researchers, eating half of a lawyer at lunch would avoid cravings in the afternoon. This fruit would reduce the feeling of hunger by 40% within three hours after lunch.
According to a study funded by the Hass Avocado Board and published in 2021 in the Journal of Nutrition, the consumption of one lawyer per day would also have a positive impact on reducing women’s abdominal fat. “Although daily avocado consumption has not changed glucose tolerance, what we have learned is that a diet that includes a lawyer every day has an impact on how individuals store body fat beneficial for their health, but the benefits were mostly visible in women,” said Naiman Khan, a professor of kinesiology and health in Illinois.
Diet: Does the lawyer make you fat?
If avocado is undeniably a food very good for health, with multiple benefits, it is nevertheless very calorie. But consumed reasonably, and taking care of the accompaniment and the seasoning, it does not make grow, quite the contrary.
Is eating avocado every day good for your health?
According to the National Nutrition and Health Program, it is recommended to eat at least five servings of fruit and vegetables every day. A serving is equivalent to at least 80g of a fruit or vegetable. The organization also recommends consuming seasonal products to get the most out of their benefits.
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