Produtos

Avocado

Know as: Besides the highly nutritive pulp, the trees leaves have diuretic properties.

Scientific Name: Persea americana

Avocado is native from Guatemala, Antilles and Mexico. It has a shape similar to a pear, has a rough green or violet peel, a big and smooth pit, soft pulp, very smooth well- appreciated taste.

It is broadly cultivated for its tasty fruit with high nutritive content and for the leaves, with diuretic properties.

The avocado is one of the most valuable fruit ever, because of its fat, carbohydrate and protein content that makes digestion easy, eliminate pains and finish costiveness. It has several vitamins too, that generate chemical reactions, liberating energy and contributing to the formation, development and renewing of the cells.

For its quality and for the extreme smoothness taste, avocado is one of the most versatile existing fruit, source for the most varied recipes in the world. It has a little sugar flavor pulp, so it can be consumed salt or sweet, according to the culture habits.

In Brazil, the fruit is generally consumed only in sweet fashion, chopped, mashed with cream, mixed with sugar o honey, blended with milk or juice from other fruit and served as a milk shake.