Enjoy Avocados This Week

Enjoy Avocados This Week

This week we bring you avocados when they are in the peak of their season, the least expensive, and have the best flavor. Adults who consume avocado receive some important nutrient benefits, including intake of more potassium, vitamin K1, vitamin E, fiber, magnesium, and monounsaturated fat. In addition to these conventional nutrients, avocados offer a wide range of phytonutrients that are related to their unusual fat quality, including phytosterols and carotenoids. Avocados are also an especially rich source of monounsaturated fatty acids, in particular, oleic acid, which accounts for over 60% of the total fat found in this food. Also important is the greater amount of absorption of carotenoids that can take place when very low-fat, carotenoid-rich foods are combined with fat-containing foods like avocados.