A great health boost can be had with this fruit still available on supermarket shelves. For some it can also be a discovery in the kitchen to take advantage of for tasty preparations. Here then is enough vitamin E contained in this fruit to fill up daily.
Avocado comes from afar
Avocado was already consumed more than 10,000 years ago in the lands that today correspond to Mexico.
What conquers about an avocado, aside from its shape which almost resembles a green pear, is its flavor. Once peeled, its compact and creamy pulp appears light greenish and slightly yellowish.
Its core is quite large and when it is removed it leaves as a small void. Then you widen it a little more, to enjoy an avocado with sugar and rum as is done in tropical areas. Here you could cover it with crabmeat for a tasty recipe to try.
Avocado, however, must be at the right point of ripeness to give all its beneficial effects on taste and health.
The vitamin E contained in this fruit is enough to fill up daily
A particular characteristic of avocado is that it contains all the daily ration necessary for the body of the precious vitamin E also called tocopherol.
This is not the case with other foods rich in this vitamin. The recommended daily ration is between 8 and 10 mg per day of vitamin E. An avocado contains an average of 10 mg. The amount of 25 almonds or 25 hazelnuts offers 7 mg. A good dish of chicory contains 8 mg.
The advantage of avocado is that being a fruit you can eat it at any time and wherever you want. Chicory, you have to wait for it to cook. Hazelnuts and almonds are oilseeds of which a moderate intake is recommended.
The miracles of vitamin E
It is not difficult to find vitamin E in food, luckily for us. Its safe is the liver that keeps it stored and releases it whenever the body needs it.
Vitamin E is required to fight free radicals, being a powerful antioxidant. Therefore it is good for the cells, keeps them young, even those of the epidermis.
As an antioxidant, it protects the body against passive cigarette smoke and air pollution which are the cause of some cancers.
It has an anticoagulant power, but only when this action is required. Therefore it can be useful because it seems to counteract the aggregation of blood clots avoiding emboli and occlusions of the cardiovascular system. At the same time, thanks to this action, it would allow the increase of good cholesterol in the blood.
Miracles that only this vitamin and an avocado can give.