Taiwan Has Avocados! 2 Tricks To Distinguish Whether Avocado Is Ripe Or Not

Avocado is a good food rich in fat and oil. It has been favored in Europe and the United States in recent years, whether it is for people who want to lose weight, or those who advocate healthy eating. If you want to eat avocado, you don’t have to look far. The Taiwan avocado production season is from May to January of the following year. There are three main varieties of avocados. The skin is greener and the shape is different. Experts teach you how to choose!

Avocados can be eaten when they turn dark after ripening.

Li Yaotang, a technical assistant professor at the Department of Food and Beverage Management of Nankai University of Science and Technology, explained that Taiwanese avocados are smooth in appearance and green in skin, so they belong to "post-ripening". Varieties, he suggested to choose avocados with a round shape and a green skin. They will slowly turn brown after 3 to 4 days when they are bought and placed at home. At this time, they are about 9 minutes ripe and ready to eat. Turned brown, I am afraid it has been overripe and rotten.

As for the "Haas avocado" imported from abroad, it has rough skin and dark green skin. It is also a late-ripening variety. It is best to buy avocados with a slightly green skin and store them at room temperature for a few minutes. After a few days, the color of the outer skin will gradually turn to brownish black; lightly press the bottom of the avocado with your hands to feel soft and ready to eat.

There is also a "gherkin avocado" on the market, which is similar in size and color to gherkins, but with a smooth skin. Li Yaotang explained that because avocados need to be pollinated after flowering in order to continue to grow and bear fruit, and the fruit that is not pollinated will stop developing, so there are no large avocado seeds in it.

How to eat avocado in summer: add passion fruit and make juice

Apart from lettuce salad and avocado milk, is there any other way to eat avocado? Li Yaotang suggested that using avocado with seasonal passion fruit will help bring out the smooth taste. After splitting the avocado, first take out the seeds, then scrape the remaining film of the avocado seeds with a spoon to avoid the bitter taste, then scoop out the pulp with a spoon, put it into the blender together with the passion fruit juice and blend, then add A little boiled water, stir again until uniform and serve.

Avocado seeds are also useful. Sliced, dried, and boiled for tea.

Not only is the avocado pulp rich in oil, but the nutrients of the avocado seeds are not lost to the pulp. Nutritionist Song Minghua said that avocado seeds are edible, and foreign animal experiments have shown that avocado seeds can control cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure in mice.

Li Yaotang shared that he would slice and dry avocado seeds before using them to make tea. Add half avocado seeds to 1000cc of hot water, boil it for 20 to 30 minutes, and drink it. If you feel that the taste is not good, you can add a little lemon juice or honey to taste. He reminded that the amount of avocado seeds should not be too much, otherwise The brewed tea will be bitter and hard to drink.

Because of the light pink color of avocado seed tea, it is also known as "pink tea". Medical reporter Hong Suqing shared that a Japanese program actually measured the health benefits of drinking pink tea. A plump female artist was invited to drink avocado seed tea for 2 weeks. After drinking avocado seed tea for 2 weeks, she found that her appetite decreased and her weight dropped from 98 kg to 90 kg. , the waist is alsoAfter the program was broadcast, "Pink Tea" became popular on the Internet community.

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