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Everything you need to know about this popular fruit

These wholesome properties make avocados nutritious and delicious!

  • Nutrient-dense (high in nutrients for relatively few calories)

  • Rich in healthy, good-for-you fats 

  • High in fiber

  • Contain many essential vitamins and minerals including: folate and other B vitamins, potassium, vitamin K, copper, magnesium, powerful antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and carotenoids (which are beneficial for eye health), and cholesterol-lowering phytosterols

Avocado Inspiration

  • Add a piece to your daily smoothie.

  • Toss it into a salad.

  • Top with lemon and pepper as a snack.

  • Use as a butter substitute in baked goods.

  • Make Guacamole!

Avoca-do’s

The safe way to slice it:

  1. Wash and dry the avocado before cutting to avoid food poisoning.

  2. The avocado should stay on the board, not in your hand.

  3. Slice avocado into two long halves with the knife horizontal to the cutting board. Then rotate avocado 90 degrees and slice again to quarter it.

  4. Remove the seed and peel the skin,
    all with your fingers.

  5. Slice, dice or mash for sandwiches, salads or toast!  

Avoca-don’ts

  1. Don’t eat the seed. 

  2. Never remove the pit by stabbing it with a knife. Leave this fancy trick to professional chefs.

  3. Don’t purchase avocados that are too soft or ones with dark spots.

  4. Avoid paring knives for cutting avocados. A chef’s knife is ideal, but a steak knife will do just fine.

Avocado Hand: It’s a Thing

  • Not just a hashtag on Instagram, this has become a recognized term in emergency rooms for injuries caused by the improper handling or cutting of an avocado.

  • In 2017, Consultant Plastic Surgeon Simon Eccles in London, told the Huffington Post that he treats about four patients a week for avocado hand, and his hospital even experiences a “post-brunch surge” on Saturdays.

  • Famous avocado hand sufferers include Meryl Streep and “The View” co-host Joy Behar.

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