When do avocados usually mature and go on the market? How do you eat it? How do I keep it?

The fruit of avocado is a kind of fruit with high nutritional value, which is comparable to cream, and even has the laudatory name of "forest cream". It is generally eaten as fruit, and can also be made into dishes and cans. So when does it usually mature and go on sale? How would you like it? How do I save it when I buy it back? It is understood that avocados bloom in March in southern China, mature in August-September, and generally bear fruit in 3-4 years. Avocado is a fleshy drupe with a yellowish green, reddish brown to brown pericarp when ripe, with a length of 5 cm 20 cm and a diameter of 3 cm 14 cm. After ripening, the peel becomes yellowish green, milky yellow, brown or dark green. The flesh of Microsoft, flesh color milky white, light yellow or cream, the meat is very delicate, with egg yolk flavor, slightly sweet, a single fruit weighs 150-1500 grams.

How do you eat avocados?

1. Eat it directly. Wash the avocado, peel and enucleate, cut it into small pieces, eat it directly, and taste it carefully. you may not be used to eating it for the first time.

2. Make salad. Cut avocados into 1 cm square particles, add peas, corn kernels and your favorite vegetables (such as scalded broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.), then mix with salad dressing or tomato sauce.

3. apply it on a piece of bread. This is a very simple way to eat avocados, cut, scoop up with a small spoon, when jam, smear evenly, plus strawberry jam or honey, the taste is quite good.

4. Make milkshakes. Add avocado to appropriate milk or yogurt, plus honey, put it in a blender and stir it into a milkshake, which is a favorite of children and young people.

5. Add sugar. Pick a ripe and soft avocado, cut it in half, remove the core, scrape the flesh off the skin with a small fork or spoon, mix well with a spoon of sugar, and eat directly with a spoon.

6. Dip it in mustard sauce. Dip raw avocados in mustard soy sauce, which is a favorite way of eating in Japan. Take a green avocado, cut in half, remove the core, and then peel off the skin with a knife, cut the flesh into 0.5cm~1cm slices and put on a plate; prepare a small plate of soy sauce and a little mustard. Dipping, taste similar to salmon and tuna belly.

How to preserve avocados?

1. Hard avocados can be kept for a long time. If you buy a hard avocado and want it to soften quickly, put it in a warm place.

two。 If you want to slow down the softening, put it in the shade or in the freezer.

3. After ripening at room temperature, avocados (avocados) can be stored for about a week in a vegetable box in the refrigerator.

4. The flesh of avocado (avocado) blackens easily when exposed to air. If you only use half of it at a time, be sure to keep the half with the nucleus, don't go to the core, sprinkle with lemon juice, wrap it in plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator.

Attached: the selection method of avocado

1. Avocado ripening period.

Avocados mature from August to September every year, but most avocados are imported, and avocados imported from abroad can be bought throughout the year.

two。 Look at the color.

When buying, do not buy too green, medium color, and then put a few days the color will become dark, wait until the dark color, you can eat. If you buy a dark one, eat it as soon as you get home, and don't leave it for too long.

3. Look at the skin.

Although the avocado skin is potholed, with small bumps in the skin. However, we should also pay attention to the selection, whether there is damage, whether there is a split, to look at some.

4. Touch it.

Gently pinch the surface of avocado, elastic is the best. If you squeeze it in and don't pop it out, it's an old avocado. Don't buy anything that is not fresh, just buy a fresh one and put it home for a few days.

5 look at the fruit stalk.

There is a handle on the avocado, if the inside is black, then the fruit can not be selected, it is not fresh for too long. If the inside is yellow, relatively fresh, such fruit can be chosen.

6. Look at the whole.

Finally, there is an overall inspection to see if there is any decay and deterioration on the surface, and if there is no big pit, it can basically be determined to be fresh avocado, so you can rest assured to buy it.