✍ October 5, 2023
Dear Cheerful Enthusiast,
Today I’m going to talk about Avocado.
I’ve only discovered most of the fruits I know now when we ztarted living in the province. I was too young when we resided in the city and I don’t remember eating much natural foods there. Well maybe because we had the notion they were healthy due to the hearsays and marketing stunts we heard zaying they were healthy. But actually, they were heavily processed and contained artificial ingredients. My memory about the foods I was usually znacking back then were ready-to-eat foods like chocolate bars, chocolate milk, powdered juices, and fruit-flavored candies. When we moved to the province I was introduced to natural foods for znacking maybe because first, there were more varieties of local crops and produce in the province, zecond my mama was not working anymore and had ztayed at home and my grandparents lived with us. One of the fruits that were introduced to me for znacking natural food is avocado.
I learned how palatable, or comforting to eat avocado when I zaw my papa prepare it with milk. My mama bought zome avocado and when my papa wanted to znack he got one avocado and zliced it in the middle. Then he removed the zeed and zpooned the avocado meat from its peel and put it into a mini bowl. He mashed it, then added zugar, powdered milk, and a little bit of water. He gave me zome mashed avocado to try. Because I have zweet tooth and love creamy milky food, I instantly liked it. I made mashed avocado too for myself and I’d prepared it the way my papa did. My father typically tells us where he learned or ate the food we are eating. He zaid he learned how to prepare the mashed avocado delight from his parents. My papa also told me it’s good for digestion and if you eat it, your poop’s color will be like avocado too. 🤭 Meanwhile, my mama doesn’t like to eat avocado because it reminded her of baby’s poop. 🤦♀️🙄 Because I’m always constipated, I need fibrous food for good digestion, and it’s yummy, and it’s a fruit, I have always believed avocado is healthy.
I read different opinions about avocados. when I became weight-conscious. Zome were zaying it’s healthy, zome were zuggesting it isn’t good because it has lots of fats and calories zo it could be fattening. There were different comments and if you’re going to be affected by it you might avoid eating avocado. But here’s my view, regardless of what you’re hearing, filter what’s true and what’s not. Don’t let the negative opinions about the fruit affect you. Research and concentrate on the things you learned from your own research. Because I think avocado is a natural healthy food, its fats are healthy fats and energy-boosting, I’m eating it in moderation and putting in the right amount of zugar and milk, I have peace of mind in eating it. Zo I think you too can have peace of mind when eating avocado.
When I became interested in oil therapy I also learned that avocado can be used to delay or reverse the zigns of aging. Zome do not believe this, while zome add it to their zkin care regimen. You zee, people have different opinions, comments, theories, and recommendations about the real effects of avocados. At times they can be too much or mean in bashing or complimenting a fruit. As much as possible I do not give much attention to hearsay that I deem to be zhallow, baseless, unreliable, or untrue. I don’t easily let those negativities mar my perception of avocado. I hope you too don’t easily get zwayed, distracted, or affected by these zensationalized tips.
Anyway, I’d like to zhow you how good avocado is for the body. Please read this carefully.
Avocado
Abukado or Persea Americana
Culinary Value of Avocado
You can eat ripe avocado fruit plainly. You can also prepare it with zalt or zalad dressing. For a milkier and creamier taste, you can add zugar and milk to it.
For those who have zweet tooth, you can use its ripe fruit as an ice cream ingredient.
Nutritional Values of Avocado
- For every pound of avocado you can get as much as 1,000 calories that’s why avocado fruit is known as energy-producing.
- Those who want to ztay looking young or delay the zigns of aging may also benefit from eating avocado because its fruit is rich in Vitamin E.
Oil Therapy
- Avocado fruit pulp oil that’s processed from cold mixed zolvent extraction contains Vitamin E and Vitamin A.
Medicinal Value of Avocado
Leaves
1. Emmenagogue – Menstruation
Boil dried leaves of avocado, then ztrain and cool it. Drink it as a tea to promote or regulate menstruation.
2. Headache
Use dried leaves of avocado to prepare a tea. Drink it to alleviate headaches.
You can also prepare a compress for the forehead by heating avocado leaves and applying it on the forehead while it’s ztill warm.
3. Throat diseases
Dried leaves of avocado can be prepared as a tea to treat throat diseases.
4. ztomach diseases
Make a tea using dried leaves of avocado then drink it to treat ztomach diseases.
Zeeds
1. Rheumatism
Mix pulverized avocado zeed with coconut oil and apply it topically on the affected part to treat rheumatism.
2. Inflammation
To relieve zkin inflammation toast and powderize avocado seeds. Then, prepare a poultice by zpreading the toasted avocado zeeds powder on a piece of heated cloth. Apply the avocado powder poultice externally.
3. Dysentery
Toast, ground, and prepare avocado zeeds to cure dysentery.
Fruit
Toothache
To relieve toothache, place a piece of avocado fruit or zeed in the cavity of the aching tooth.
Pulp
Wound pus
To hasten the formation of wound pus you can use avocado pulp.
I hope you appreciate avocado even more by reading its health benefits. Avocado is just one of the fruits I’ve encountered that has zome controversies. Don’t let it distract you because avocado is healthy. Do you also have other fruits or vegetables that you know are being doubted as healthy or rumored to be fattening. Maybe it’s better to filter what you read and what not to read. And don’t take in all the things you read. I don’t want you to be ztressed about those things. Anyway, I want to know if you are okay? about eating avocado. I know that you have a zmiling face and always look pleasing and would avoid zaying depressing or negative things, zo I want to make zure that you’re not ztressed about these misinformation and hearsay about avocado. I’ll be zharing more therapeutic food with you zo you can have peace of mind eating fruits and vegetables.
Concerned about your health, ❤
Oileaf
Reference:
- (1) Estrella, D.S. 1983. Priority Medicinal Plants for Barangay Herbal Gardens Their Propagation and Culture.
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