Avocado Nutrition
Avocado Nutrition
Learn all the facts you need to love fresh avocados even more
Discover the avocado benefits for heart health, weight management, type 2 diabetes, and healthy living at every age
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Avocados: A Nutritious Addition to Any Healthy Eating Pattern
It’s easy to see that avocados can be incorporated into a variety of healthy eating plans, but we’re also finding through ongoing research efforts that including avocado in the diet may contribute several benefits for your health, too.
Are Avocados Part of Your Snack Routine?
These self-packaged snacks are ready-to-go. Just slice them open, grab a spoon and scoop into the delicious, creamy goodness.
Think Outside the (Lunch) Box
Time to get inspired to pack a lunch that will be eaten, not traded or pushed to the back of the mini refrigerator. These tips and tricks will help take your lunchtime nutrition from poor to powerful, without sacrificing nutrition—or flavor.
Managing Your Waistline: Avocados Can Help
You may be surprised to learn that “good fats,” like those found in fresh avocados, can play a positive role in both weight loss and weight management, especially in combination with fiber.
Avocados: A Great Addition to the Mediterranean Diet!
The Mediterranean diet is a way of eating associated with positive health outcomes.
Include Avocados for Healthy Aging
Are you concerned about maintaining your health as you age? Avocados contribute nearly 20 vitamins, minerals and beneficial plant compounds to the body.
Anatomy of an Avocado
While commonly known for their good fat content, it’s also important to recognize the full nutrient package that they offer.
Nutritional Information
About Avocados
Avocados contain…
- 80 calories per 50 gram serving
(approximately ⅓ medium avocado)
and…
- 3 grams of fiber
- 0 grams of sugar
- 5 grams of monounsaturated fat
- 1 gram of polyunsaturated fat
- 1 gram of saturated fat
The good fats in avocados also play other important roles in your diet and health:
- The body needs some fat to help with nutrient absorption.
- The type and amount of fat you eat is key to a healthy diet.
- Avocados are essentially the only fruit with good fats.
With the predominant fat in an avocado being unsaturated fat, avocados can be substituted for foods higher in saturated fat such as butter and other full-fat spreads. According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats can reduce the LDL (bad) cholesterol level in the blood, which can lower your risk of heart disease and stroke.
The unsaturated fat in avocados can also act as a nutrient booster by helping increase the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K, and E.
Include delicious, fresh, heart-healthy avocados in meals, recipes, and snacks! Avocados count toward your fruit and vegetable intake and provide several under-consumed nutrients by contributing nearly 20 vitamins and minerals to your diet in a single serving.
With all these good reasons to enjoy avocados, you may want to make them part of your healthy eating plan. So, go ahead and Love One Today!
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