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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Avocado Nutrients & Immune System Nutrition
Looking for foods to help keep your immune system strong? Avocados are a nutrient-dense food that contribute many of the essential nutrients that play a role in supporting our immune system nutrition.
What’s On Your Baby’s Plate?
As a registered dietitian, I’m constantly thinking about how the food we eat impacts our health and the health of our children. A child’s first foods can heavily influence their growth and development, as well as their food preferences later in life.
Avocados for Mom & Baby Nutrition
As children grow and develop during their first two years of life, their flavor preferences are heavily influenced both by breastfeeding and the first foods that are introduced into their diets. Fresh avocados appear to be one of the most ideal first foods available. In addition to being nutrient dense, avocados’ neutral flavor and smooth, creamy consistency makes them an ideal first food for babies.
Simple Ways to Eat Avocados
Learn about simple ways to add an avocado to your diet.
Recipe Makeovers: Substituting Ingredients with Avocados
So versatile, fresh avocados can be used as a substitute or addition in any meal or dish. See how avocados can makeover any recipe during the day from breakfast to dinner.
Avocado Salad Nutrition
Salads are actually one of the top ways Americans enjoy avocados – outside of guacamole of course. Fresh and easy to make, salads are a versatile dish in themselves. Learn what ingredients to consider when building your salad that will add nutrient value.
Growing Up with Avocados – Avocados for Babies
Baby’s early foods provide the building blocks for future nutritional health.
Avocados & Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients (protein and fat are the other two) and are classified as simple or complex. Simple carbohydrates include sugars like glucose, fructose (fruit sugar) and sucrose (table sugar). Complex carbohydrates include starches and fiber. The primary function of carbohydrates (except fiber) is to provide energy for the body, especially the brain and the nervous system.
Avocados for Early Stages
From Pregnancy to School-Aged Kids
From pregnancy to first food, from school-age to adulthood, teach your little one avocado goodness, from the very beginning.
