Are avocados good for you?

Avocados are extremely healthy. An EAT ME avocado mainly contains unsaturated fats. And avocados are also rich in vitamin B6 and copper.

How conscious are you of your daily eating habits? Does your diet contain fruit and vegetables every day? All the experts agree: a responsible diet includes 250 grams of vegetables and two portions of fruit every day. And that is the minimum recommendation, so eating more fruit and vegetables is even better for you! But is every variety of fruit and vegetable suitable as an ingredient in a healthy meal? What about avocados?

The avocado is undoubtedly popular! The green-brown, pear shaped fruit is rapidly conquering the Netherlands. And that is partly due to the versatility of the soft, creamy flesh. And certainly because of the beneficial effects avocado has on your health. The EAT ME avocado is, for example, very rich in unsaturated fats. You know, the kind of fat that is good for our body. If you increase your intake of unsaturated fats and decrease your intake of saturated fats, you will see this reflected in your cholesterol levels: they will go down.

Vitamins in avocado

Avocados are also a source of vitamins. Especially vitamin B6. It is maybe one of the lesser-known letters in the vitamin alphabet, but it's an important building block. Vitamin B6 is good for regulating and balancing your hormones. It also boosts your immune system. And did you know that our body needs copper every day? Well, copper can be found in that delicious avocado too!

Which avocado do you choose?

But say you are standing in the fruit and veg section in your local supermarket, which avocado do you choose? You can come across a wide variety of avocados in the shops. There are green avocados. Reddish brown avocados. And avocados that are almost black. And then there are avocados with a knobbly skin. Tip: just look out for the EAT ME sticker you see on many avocados today. That sticker says: I am ready to eat now!

Nutritional value of an avocado

The 250 grams that an EAT ME avocado weighs makes a big contribution to your daily dose of healthiness. That 200 grams is the average weight for an avocado. Bigger and smaller ones are also on sale. Even very small ones, in the shape of baby avocados. Equally as good for you, just a little lighter weighing in at around 100 grams.

*Nutrition values per 100 gram

What can I do with an avocado?

Chefs already know that avocados are genuine all-rounders in the kitchen. More and more recipes list this fruit vegetable as an ingredient. Do you need some inspiration to get a varied and exciting daily dose of vitamins? Take a look at the EAT ME recipe page.

Avocado recipes

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You will come across them in a large variety of recipes, from breakfast and lunch to dinner. Real foodies never skip a day. There is a reason why it is perhaps the most popular exotic fruit in Western Europe. We are talking about the avocado, that brown-green fruit that is conquering kitchens everywhere. And rightly so. Avocados are not only absolutely delicious, they also turn up on super food lists with great regularity. If you're watching your health, EAT ME avocados are simply a must-eat.

Fun quiz question: is the avocado a fruit or a vegetable? Experts tend to disagree on this sometimes. Per the official definition, the avocado is a fruit, even if it is also seen as a fruiting vegetable sometimes. That's because you will often find avocados next to cucumbers and tomatoes on the shelves. The Nutrition Centre sees it as a vegetable, because the avocado is usually eaten as a vegetable.

Is avocado a fruit or a vegetable? At last - the definitive answer!

Fruit or vegetable? An EAT ME avocado is technically a fruit but it is eaten and used as a vegetable. So you can include it in your daily portion of 250 grams of vegetables.

We all agree that the avocado is tasty, healthy and versatile. And that explains its sky-rocketing popularity in European cuisine. Lovers of culinary dishes praise its soft, creamy flesh. But there's one thing we never seem to agree on: is the avocado a vegetable or is it fruit?

Officially an avocado is classed as a fruit. But that is only half the answer. Botanically, avocados are defined as being fruit, but they are generally used in kitchen as a vegetable. So they offer the best of both worlds: fruit and vegetables. There are more of these ‘fruit vegetables’. Tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines are also well-known examples of fruits that are categorised as vegetables for culinary purposes. And the melon: it's actually a vegetable but is eaten as a fruit.

Are you conscious of your diet and do you make sure you eat at least 250 grams of vegetables and two portions of fruit every day? Then you can include the avocado as part of your intake of vegetables.

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