avocado

     

The avocao (Persea americana, also known as the avocado, butter or alligator pear) is a tree native to Mexico, Central and South America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The name "avocado" also refers to the fruit (technically a berry) of the tree that contains an egg-shaped pit. Avocado trees were cultivated in pre-Incan settlements with archeological evidence dating to 750 B.C.

Trivia about avocado

  • Grenadans love to eat ice cream made from this main guacamole ingredient
  • When you add this New World fruit to a BLT, in becomes a BLAT
  • Alligator pear is another term for this
  • Make room for guacamole & head to Fallbrook, California for its festival of this fruit
  • Native to Mexico, this pear-shaped green fruit is a hardy member of the laurel family
  • "BLAT" is a BLT with this "a"dditional ingredient
  • To get its green flesh, cut lengthwise around the large seed, twist halves apart, remove seed & scoop
  • This fruit, essential to make guacamole, is ripe when the top & bottom yield to pressure
  • Holy guacamole! Fallbrook, California is known as this "Capital of the World"
  • Crab, cucumber, rice & this fatty fruit are all wrapped up in a California roll
  • (Dr. Oz gives the clue.) Prostate growth has been shown to slow down due to eating the green fruit of this tree, but there are recipes healthier than guacamole
  • Up to 88% of this green-skinned fruit's calories are fat

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