Everyone wants to start the year healthy and happy. To help you with your goals I collected 9 Favorite Avocado Recipes for a Healthy New Year!
Avocados are good and good for you. They are good in a variety of salads. Mash them and spread on burgers, sandwiches, and wraps instead of high-fat mayonnaise. Make an easy avocado toast. Or, simply enjoy them plain!
9 Favorite Avocado Recipes for a Healthy New Year
Avocados are a convenient and healthy food that doesn’t require cooking. Perfect for on the go lunches. Eat them plain or add a diced mango. This portable fruit is healthy and filling.
The avocado is a tree, long thought to have originated in South Central Mexico. The tree produces this unique fruit that consists mostly of carbohydrates. The avocado is a green, pear-shared fruit. Avocados are also high in healthy fats. Numerous studies show that they have powerful beneficial effects on health. They contain both monosaturated and polyunsaturated fat or ‘good’ heart-healthy fats.
Avocados are nutrient dense, the ratio of nutrients compared to calories in food, having 20 essential nutrients including fiber, vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K, and folic acid. The avocado is also high in potassium. Avocado is a mineral high in potassium; a mineral most people don’t get enough of. Several studies show that having a high potassium intake is linked to reduced blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure.
The breakdown of avocados looks like this: 160 calories, 2 grams of protein and 15 grams of healthy fats. Although avocados contain 9 grams of carbs, 7 of those are fiber so there are only 2 “net” carbs, making this a low-carb friendly plant food.
Avocados do not contain any cholesterol or sodium and are low in saturated fat.
I’ve been slowly working avocados and other fresh ingredients into our diets.
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Catalina says
I love avocados! And all these recipes are fabulous!
TidyMom says
this avocado lover thanks you for all of these!!
Krista says
I am going to have to have all 9 of these this week!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says
I adore avocado!
Jacque Hastert says
I love all things avocado! These 9 will be made very soon!
Jen says
We are slightly avocado obsessed in our house (thank goodness we live in CA!). Can’t wait to try all of these.
Laurel says
Great ideas. my in-laws have a love relationship with avocados and I am making them all dinner this weekend. This is a fabulous list of ideas to have. Thank you for sharing. This is perfect.