Avocado Powder 1/4 lb bottle: HE
This herb is BULK DISCOUNTED in our 10 lb & 25 lb bulk packs. To find the bulk packs, just copy and paste the herb name into our Search, or refer to our Bulk By The Kilo & Ton category. We use only 100% Gluten-free, Vegetable Cellulose ”00” capsules for all of our encapsulated products. We offer both bulk powder and capsules. Obviously our bulk bottles are bulk powder, not capsules, but the capsule weight is included to give you a way of judging the recommended dosage. Avocado – Botanical Powder — Approximately 600 mg. each capsule. 1/2 teaspoon of powder is about equal to one capsule. Powder can be consumed by sprinkling it over your food or mixing it with a syrup such as maple or chocolate. You could also mix it with orange juice. The citric acid in the orange juice will help to mask any unpleasant powder tastes. Other common names: Alligator Pear, Midshipman’s Butter, Aguacate, Palta, Butter Pear Discover the beauty secrets that the ancient Mayans knew about the Avocado. This delicious and nutritious fruit with its healthy high fat content appears to fight the ravages of age, sun and wind damage as it softens and smoothes the skin. Its high mineral, vitamin and nutrient compounds help to support healthy cholesterol levels, ease inflammation, improve brain function, fight serious malignant disease and promote good eye health. History: The Avocado probably originated in southern Mexico sometime between 7000 and 5000 B.C., and was cultivated from the Rio Grande to central Peru by 500 B.C. This nutritious fruit has been a part of the New World diet for over two thousand years. The Aztecs called the Avocado the Nahuatl word, ahuacatl, meaning ”testicle,” because of its shape, and considered it to be a sexual stimulant. The Mayans thought it to be a multifaceted beauty treatment for smooth skin and lustrous hair, and the Spanish conquistadors, who could not pronounce the Aztec name, changed it to a manageable aguacate. The first English-language mention of Avocado was by Sir Henry Sloane in 1696, and by 1871, when Judge R. B. Ord of Santa Barbara, California, successfully introduced avocados to the United States with trees from Mexico, growers soon afterward realized the potential of the Avocado as a valuable cash crop. A single California Avocado tree can produce up to sixty pounds of fresh fruit (or about 120 Avocados) annually, and it is a fruit – not a vegetable – and is actually botanically classified as a berry. The Avocado tree is a dense, perennial, evergreen tree that may reach a height of eighty feet, and the fruit of the Alligator pear (one of its common names) is highly nutritious and has a soft, smooth, buttery flesh with a bland, nutlike flavor. The fat content of the flesh is very high, and the center of the fruit has a large smooth stone (pit). The skin of the Avocado has a coarse texture and may vary from green to maroon in color. The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, and the si
