❤ AVOCADO ❤ - Arts, facts, and my first animation!

I could say “Avocados are awesome!”, but you might have heard something similar recently. Anyway - Avocado is probably the most lovely fruit in the world. Today I have some facts about it with some of my arts with avocado in the first place.

Avocado has not always been an avocado.

Avocados have been called many things throughout history, including: ahuacatl by the Aztecs, aguacate by the Spanish conquistadors, and “alligator pears” by Sir Hans Sloane or “Butter Pears” in India and China.

^{My name is Avocado by @thenoy}

Avocado is a fruit, not a vegetable.

^{Fruit family by @thenoy}

Avocado consists of 73% water, 15% fat, 8.5% carbohydrates (mostly fibers) and 2% protein

The taste and texture depend on the region in which they’re grown. Firmer and lower in fat avocados we can find in Florida and Hass (this dark kind) in Mexico (guacamole ❤).

^{Parts of Avocado by @thenoy}

Avocados are quite old

The earliest use of avocado found by archaeologists dates back to 7,000 years BC in Peru, seeds have been found buried with Incan mummies dating back as far a 750 BC, but the first Europeans to eat Avocados were the Spanish Conquistadors in the 16th Century.

^{Old Avocado by @thenoy}

Avocado beats banana in potassium content.

Banana may have been best known as the potassium king of fruits, but it has only 487 mg of the minerals. Meanwhile, avocado has a whopping 975 mg per piece.

^{The King by @thenoy}

You can use a banana or brown paper bag to make them ripen faster.

Avocado fruit is already ripe when it feels heavy for its size and it has a dark color. You can quicken the ripening process by putting it in a brown paper bag for 2-4 days, and even faster when you add a banana in the bag. Bananas release ethylene gas, a natural plant hormone that aids in ripening fruit.

^{Keep calm, Avocado by @thenoy}

You can use them in many different ways

Not only for sandwich or salad but also as vegan butter, icecream (Brazil), in hot dog topped with sauerkraut, mayonnaise, and Avocado (Chile), as guacamole (Mexico), as a dessert with other fruits and sugar (Hawaii).

^{Everything for you by @thenoy}

Avocado is awesome healthy

It's good for keeping the eyes and immune system healthy, it's a skin protector against signs of aging and UV ray effects and also it's cholesterol-lowering.

^{Bad sun - good avocado by @thenoy}

Avocado is climacteric.

It means that as long as the fruit is attached to the tree, it would not ripen due to a fruit stem inhibitor (it pickable when a few mature avocadoes have fallen already)

^{Fly, Avocado! by @thenoy}

Avocados are in the same family as cinnamon.

^{Black ship in family by @thenoy}

Ok! Time for arts!

I hope you will enjoy it :)

^{Avocado - acrylic paint by @thenoy}

^{Garlic and Avocado - sketch by @thenoy}

^{Avocado dragon - watercolor paint by @thenoy}

^{Avocato - first animation I've ever made - by @thenoy}

As always - thanks for reading and see you soon! 🥑