Avocado, mild, creamy and healthy.

Avocado is a super healthy vegetable that you should eat much more of than just as a side dish for tacos on Friday nights. Do your body a favor, eat avocado every day.
Avocados grow on trees and are native to South and Central America. There are many different varieties, with varying sizes, colors and thickness of the skin.

The pear-shaped fruit is not grown in Norway, but we import from the Middle East and South America.

Avocados are rich in healthy, monounsaturated fats, and for those of you who are concerned with a healthy diet, you can use it as a substitute for butter in recipes..

Avocado uses:An avocado has a soft and spreadable yellow-green flesh, which tastes mild and nutty.

Avocados are perhaps most commonly used in guacamole, the avocado dip from Mexican cuisine. They are also great as a side dish in salads, with shellfish and chicken, or as an ingredient in smoothies.

A good tip to see if the avocado is ripe is to remove the small bud at the end. If the flesh is fresh and green, the fruit is ripe. If it is brown, the fruit is old.

When in contact with oxygen, the avocado flesh turns brown and can look indelicate. Squeeze a little lemon over it, or leave the stone in the flesh, to keep the brown color away.

You can quickly ripen unripe fruit by placing it on the kitchen counter in a paper bag with a banana or an apple.

Nutritional content of avocados:
Avocados contain up to 30 percent fat, which is significantly more than other fruits. The good news is that these monounsaturated fatty acids are healthy for us, and you can eat avocados every day.

Avocados are also rich in protein and contain vitamins E, B, and C.