At the end of the nineteenth century, several plant species were introduced into the Philippines. These came from different parts of the world and included fruits, vegetables and medicinal plants. Some proved to be valuable and easily adapted to the Philippine conditions while others were less promising and did not gain a wide acceptance among the populace. One of the introductions which proved to be suitable to the Philippine soil and climatic conditions was the avocado.
In the Philippines, the marketing of avocado involves two very simple systems. In the first system, the farmers bring their harvest to the market together with other farm produce i.e. banana, root crops, chicken, and sell these directly to the consumers. In this way they obtain a higher price for the avocado fruits. In the second system, a middleman, locally called 'comprador', buys all the avocado fruits from the farmers at a lower price and sells them in the market at a higher price. The middleman generally dictates the farm-gate price since he bears the transportation cost. Under the present nature of small-scale and backyard avocado production, where the volume of production is small, the farmer prefers to sell his produce to the middleman. Avocado production is for the local market.
Avocado typically thought of as a "fatty food", its all healthy fats! Not only is this fruit super-high in mono-unsaturated fat, but also chock full of vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients, and antioxidants. The quality dose of healthy fats and other nutrition you get from avocados helps your body to maintain proper levels of hormones that help with fat loss and muscle building. Also, since avocados are an extremely satiating food, eating them helps to reduce your appetite in the hours after your meal.
Also, we added a small slice to our Chinese sweet and sour vinegar fish and you can be happy to know that it's also one of the healthiest toppings we had use on our menu, double the benefit of Omega 3 found in fish and avocado. Nowadays, they seem to be a surge of increasing awareness of heart disease and stroke, blood pressure, diabetic etc in the media. Henceforth, we had to moderate, on the sugar content and dish out a healthier dining for the public.
Beside all this benefits it CHEAP! We paid about P20 per kg for the avocado, in Singapore we had to pay about S$1.40 ($S1 to P32) per piece.
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