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<\/a>Photo credit: Tashka2000 via Getty Images<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Avocados have certainly gained a lot of traction over the last few years as one of the best eats around! They are healthy, yummy and contain a ton of awesome nutrients. Here are some cool facts about the avocado that you may not know! It is always good to have a one up on your avocado!<\/p>\n Source: HuffingtonPost<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n An Avocado Is A Fruit, And More Specifically A Berry<\/strong><\/p>\n You might be inclined to call it a vegetable, thanks to its green hue and savory taste, but the avocado is technically a fruit, and even more specifically, a single-seeded berry. A fruit is “the matured ovary of a flower,” according to University of California<\/span> Agriculture & Natural Resources. Fruits consist of a tough outer layer (the skin or rind), a middle layer we typically think of as the flesh of the fruit and a casing around a seed (or seeds). Avocado is further classified as a fleshy<\/em> as opposed to a dry fruit, and a berry rather than a drupe, which has tough pits or stones, like peaches.<\/p>\n An Avocado Has More Potassium Than A Banana<\/strong> They’ll Ripen More Quickly With A Banana Or An Apple Around<\/strong> Close-up of Halved Avocado<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Avocados Are One Of A Few High-Protein Fruits<\/strong><\/p>\n One avocado packs four grams of protein, among the highest amount coming from a fruit.<\/p>\n And it’s good-quality protein to boot. While they don’t contain every single amino acid required in the body’s protein-building process, they do have all 18 of the important ones, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Plus, all of that protein is available for the body to use, while some of the protein you might get from meat sources is not.<\/p>\n Tomato avocado toastie<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n You Can Swap Them Into Baked<\/span> Goods Recipes For Butter<\/strong> You Don’t Have To Eat<\/em> Them To Reap Their Benefits<\/strong> Source: HuffingtonPost<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Avocados have certainly gained a lot of traction over the last few years as one of the best eats around! They are healthy, yummy and contain a ton of awesome nutrients. Here are some cool facts about the avocado that you may not know! It is always good to have a one up on your avocado! Source: HuffingtonPost An Avocado Is A Fruit, And More Specifically A Berry You might be inclined to call it a vegetable, thanks to its green hue and savory taste, but the avocado is technically a fruit, and even more specifically, a single-seeded berry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1,29],"tags":[3194,1000],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA single avocado has 975 milligrams of potassium, while a banana, well-known for being loaded with potassium, delivers just half that, with 487 milligrams per large fruit.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of bananas! The yellow fruit — as well as apples — release ethylene gas, a naturally-occurring plant hormone. If you store your unripe avocados in a brown bag with an apple or a banana, the gases trapped in the bag will help those green guys ripen more speedily, according to The Haas Avocado Board.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\nThe creamy texture and healthy fats make for a surprisingly-easy baking substitution<\/span>. And no, you won’t be making green muffins. In the right ratios, you can ditch some butter and replace with avocado for healthier chocolate chip cookies<\/span>, banana bread and brownies<\/span>, thanks to these tasty avocado recipes<\/a> compiled by our friends at POPSUGAR Fitness.<\/p>\n
\nNutritional perks aside, avocados can play a key role in your healthy hair and skin routine<\/a>. The antioxidants, amino acids and essential oils<\/span> inside an avocado can help repair<\/span> damaged hair, moisturize dry skin, treat sunburns and maybe even minimize wrinkles, HuffPost Style reported.<\/p>\nRemember to share on Facebook!<\/h1>\n
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