Avocados (or the botanical name, Persea americana) is also known as palta or aguacate in Spanish-speaking countries and is affectionately known as “Alligator pear” for a pear shape and rough skin.

This fruit is native to Mexico, Central and South America, and the same plant family of Laurel (Lauraceae): the soft, buttery texture and the meat in egg-shaped seed center, housing, known as PIT.

Originally called “testicle” (or ahuacatl) to the Aztec, this delicious fruit is believed to have been chosen people, because it was biologically related to dinosaurs and other large animals: animals that are currently not able to eat much fruit, and large quantities of fat and calories, and not to scale the size of the seeds (this is as big as an egg) showed that it was unlikely that the dinosaurs who are accustomed to eat avocados.

For the fruit to have disappeared with the collapse, but argued that people keep propagating avocados to save themselves from extinction.

Today, avocado is often used for many dishes including the famous guacamole sauce. Indeed, the Super Bowl Sunday, the U.S., 50 million pounds of avocados will be used for guacamole! www.herbalifeopportunity.com

Its nutritional properties are very high that not only are rich in soluble and insoluble fiber (some sources say that the more fiber-rich fruit) but also rich in polyunsaturated fats that have been documented by several studies to lower LDL-cholesterol levels and improve lipids in the blood.

Avocado trees yield much fruit if kept in the right environment (and if you are properly fertilized and watered): This is not surprising that they are cultivating the hobby in many subtropical climate that we have a page that explains how to grow avocado, which produces.

Now, more than 80 different varieties, but the most cultivated variety Hess: single, healthy tree can produce hundreds of avocados this year, so the trees are used as a warehouse, and the fruits are left for several months, when it is not necessary at a time!.