Various fruits provide carotenoids and avocado is one of the richest. Health benefits are found from the orange-yellow pigments you can find in the fruit and are supplied if properly absorbed by the body. However, sweet potatoes, carrots, and leafy greens for example contain very little fat of at least 1 gram per serving but most of them obtaining carotenoids.

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Avocados are also high in healthy fats. Scientific research shows that this fruit contain many health benefits. These fruit come from the tree called  Persea Americana. The fruit is also called the "alligator pear". It is very descriptive because it has the shape of a pear and has green, bumpy-like alligator skin.

According to an article from Authority Nutrition, for  every pear-shaped fruit, the following nutrients are present.26% of Vitamin K, 20% of Foliate, Vitamin C: 17%,14% of Potassium and Vitamin B5, 13% of Vitamin B6, 10% Vitamin E of the RDA. Small amounts of B1 (Thiamine), B2 (Riboflavin) and B3 (Niacin), Magnesium, Manganese, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Phosphorous, Vitamin A are also present.

This avocado fruit may also contain a key ingredient that helps fight leukemia. A part of the fruit more specifically the lipids if mixed with drugs for cancer, attack leukemia stem cells directly and leaves the healthy cells intact and unharmed. The stem cells are harmful that it is one the main reasons why leukemia relapse occur in most patients.

The health nutrients provide benefits include stopping the growth of cancer and supports the body's natural defense mechanisms.  Eating avocados make perfect sense. According to an article, it said that in a laboratory study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, an extract of avocado containing these carotenoids and tocopherols inhibited the growth of both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate cancer cells. It is also official that avocados offer significant protection against breast cancer as it packed with concentrated amount of carotenoids, Natural Health365

Facts also include that avocados may help in the removal of unwanted dead skin in the body so it is has been recommended by skin care Doctors.

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