Avocado. Although it's technically a fruit, the mild-flavoured avocado is used as a vegetable. Native to central America, there are four main varieties: Hass (considered to be the best), which has a dark, knobbly skin; the pear-shaped, smooth-skinned Ettinger and Fuerte (of which a tiny, baby-sized variety is also available); and the more spherical Nabal. Avocado is also sometimes known as a butter pear, because of its unctuous flesh, or as alligator pear because of the Hass variety's textured skin. Highly nutritious, containing vitamin E, iron, potassium and niacin, it's also unique among fruits in that it contains oil - but most of it is the good, monosaturated type. Availability All year round. Choose the best Go for an unblemished skin, and flesh that gives slightly if squeezed gently (though it shouldn't actually be soft).
Prepare it Using a small, sharp knife, run a blade all the way around the avocado, from top to bottom. Store it Once ripe, keep them in the fridge. Cook it. Persea americana (Avocado) Avocado. Etymologie und Geschichte[Bearbeiten] Die Bezeichnung „Avocado“ geht auf das Nahuatl-Wort ahuacatl zurück, das auch „Hoden“ bedeutet. Durch eine volksetymologische Umbenennung wurde daraus in älterem Spanisch Avocado („Advokat“, heute abogado), das im 20. Jahrhundert ins Deutsche übernommen wurde. Der moderne spanische Name aguacate ist direkt aus dem Nahuatl-Wort entlehnt.[3] Früher wurde die Avocado gelegentlich auch als Abacata oder Abacate bezeichnet (nach dem Portugiesischen) und im Deutschen wegen der Konsistenz des Fruchtfleisches als Butterfrucht, Butterbirne oder aufgrund ihrer Form und der Beschaffenheit ihrer Schale als Alligatorbirne.
Das Wort „Guacamole“, das eine mexikanische Avocadocreme bezeichnet, stammt von dem Nahuatl-Wort ahuacamolli, das übersetzt „Avocadosuppe“ oder „Avocadosauce“ bedeutet. 1519 wurde die Avocado erstmals von einem europäischen Autor erwähnt. Avocadosame (dikotyl), zeigt den Aufbau des Embryos Beschreibung[Bearbeiten] Typ A Typ B Nährwerte[Bearbeiten] Avocados. What's New and Beneficial About Avocados Many of our WHFoods provide you with carotenoids. These orange-yellow pigments offer you outstanding health benefits—but only if they are absorbed up into your cells. Intake of fat along with carotenoids greatly helps to improve their absorption. However, many of our best foods for obtaining carotenoids—for example, sweet potatoes, carrots, and leafy greens—contain very little fat (less than 1 gram per serving). As a special step for improving carotenoid absorption from carotenoid-rich foods, researchers have experimented with the addition of avocado to meal choices including salads, side servings of leafy greens, side servings of carrots, or tomato sauce.
The amount of avocado added has varied from study to study but averages approximately 1 cup or 1 small/medium avocado providing 20-25 grams of total fat. Avocado, cubed, raw1.00 cup(150.00 grams) NutrientDRI/DV Health Benefits Broad-Based Nutritional Support Cardiovascular Support Description History. Avocat. Originaire des régions d'altitude d'Amérique Centrale, l'avocat se cultive déjà 8000 ans avant JC. Lors de la découverte du Nouveau Monde, son aire de culture s'étend du Nord du Mexique au Pérou. Les Espagnols le propagent aux Antilles au milieu du 17 ème siècle. Son nom provient de l’aztèque ahuacatl (ce qui signifie testicules) qui devint ahuacate (et aguacate) en espagnol puis avocat. Il existe 3 grandes races d’avocat (mexicaine, antillaise et guatémaltèque) qui se déclinent en de nombreuses variétés.
La race antillaise, originaire de Colombie, a la particularité d’être tropicale et de donner des fruits peu gras. Cet arbre de 5 à 15 m de haut possède une écorce lisse et cendrée. Son bois tendre et cassant porte des branches épaisses aux feuilles entières vert foncé brillant, coriaces et acuminées. Famille : Lauracées Nom de l'arbre : Avocatier Floraison : D'avril à juin Fructification : De juin à décembre Dimension du fruit : De 7 à 20 cm de long.
Avocado. The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America,[1] classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel. Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit, botanically a large berry that contains a single seed.[2] Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates throughout the world. They have a green-skinned, fleshy body that may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical. Commercially, they ripen after harvesting. Trees are partially self-pollinating and often are propagated through grafting to maintain a predictable quality and quantity of the fruit. History[edit] Native "criollo" avocados, the ancestral form of today's domesticated varieties Persea americana, or the avocado, originated in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Etymology[edit] In other Spanish-speaking countries it is known by the Mexican name and in Portuguese it is abacate.
Cultivation[edit] Breeding[edit] Choquette. Persea americana. Persea americana [edit] Familia: Lauraceae Genus: Persea Subgenus: P. subg. Persea Species: Persea americana Varieties: P. a. var. americana – P. a. var. drymifolia – P. a. var. nubigena Name[edit] Persea americana Mill. References[edit] Gard. dict. ed. 8: Persea no. 1. 1768USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Vernacular names[edit] bosanski: Avokadocatalà: AlvocatEnglish: Avocadoespañol: Aguacate, Paltaeʋegbe: Peyagalego: Aguacate, Paltaitaliano: AvocadoNāhuatl: Ahuacatl日本語: アボカドportuguês: Abacatesuomi: AvokadoTürkçe: Avokadoукраїнська: Авокадо.