AVOCADO: Most nutritive fruit

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    #Avocado
  

As mentioned in Heading, today's article is in AVOCADO.
The one ancient fruit that originated from central America and Mexico is AVACADO. Fruits look similar to pear fruit but more nutritious then it. Depending upon its variety, AVACADO fruits contain 10-26% fats, 7%carbohydrates, 1 to 4% protein and a lot of minerals and vitamins. It is mainly used as fresh fruit, but also in salads, sandwich fillings, ice-cream etc.

AVACADO plants are grown in tropical and semi-tropical humid areas. These plant cannot tolerate hot dry winds and frost. They thrive best in tropical to warmer parts of the semi-tropical areas receiving some summer rains. Average temperature range is 12.8°c to 28°c, rainfall 600m MSL to 1500m MSL.

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A wide variety of soils are considered good soils, but poorly drained soils are not desirable due to water logging condition as avocado plants are very sensitive to such conditions. The optimum soil pH considered good is between 5.0 to 7.0 for better growth and fruiting. Thus acidc soils are good.
As it can be grown either by seed or saplings.

At harvesting time.,Maturity indices of the avocado fruit are color change and plumpiness.

      #Conclusion 

Avocado fruit is highly nutrious fruit provides fiber, vitamin E, maintain cholesterol etc...

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