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    Can this fruit cause cerebral infarction?

    • Last Update: 2021-11-11
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Original: Yun Wuxin
     
    There is an article circulating in the circle of friends with a scary title:

     
    The reason given by the doctor is plausible, enough to make people feel unclear
    .
    I don't know if such a doctor really exists, but he is talking nonsense
    .
     
    Such statements are not uncommon on social media.
    For example, there is another article saying: 
     
    After a while, it was said that avocados can "beautify the skin" and "care for the liver", and then "cause thick blood lipids, form thrombus, and induce cerebral infarction
    .
    " What kind of fruit is avocado?
     
    Avocado is also called "avocado"
    .
    Although we also call it "fruit", its characteristics are quite different from other fruits
    .

     
    The usual fruits are generally rich in water, high in sugar, low in fat, and low in protein
    .
    The moisture content of avocados is only 70%, while the usual fruits such as apples, pears, citrus, grapes, etc.
    , are all above 85%, and watermelons may be as high as 93%
    .
    In addition, the "non-aqueous ingredients" in avocado have a very high fat content, so its taste is completely different from other fruits, and its calories are much higher
    .
     
    The following is the nutritional data of avocados in the food composition database of the United States Department of Agriculture (calculated per 100 grams): Compared with ordinary fruits containing one to two hundred kilojoules per 100 grams, the avocado's 670 kilojoules/100 grams does require Much higher
    .
    Interestingly, the carbohydrates in avocado
     
    *: The data comes from the US USDA food composition database
     
    It is mainly dietary fiber, the sugar content is even less than 1%, and the dietary fiber content is as high as 6.
    7%-considering the water content of more than 70%, this dietary fiber content is extremely rare in various foods
    .


     
    Its protein 2% is considered high among all kinds of fruits, but it is nothing compared to other kinds of food
    .
    Therefore, the aforementioned social media article said that "contains a lot of protein" is basically just a rhetoric
    .
     
    The fat content of avocado is indeed very high.
    It accounts for 55% (14.
    66g) of 26.
    8g of non-aqueous nutrients
    .
    If you bite it, most of it is oil .
    The claim that "love to eat avocado causes cerebral infarction" is derived from "high fat"
    .
    In fact, the so-called "high-fat diet increases blood lipids", referring to the trans fat and saturated fat as well as "excessive intake of total fat"
    .
    Based on the current scientific evidence, the nutritional recommendation for fat intake is: under the premise of controlling the total fat intake, replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat will help reduce blood fat and cholesterol
    .
    Although avocado has a high fat content, it is dominated by unsaturated fats.
    Saturated fatty acids are only 14.
    5%, while monounsaturated fatty acids are as high as 67%, and there are 12% polyunsaturated fatty acids
    .
    This fatty acid composition is quite similar to olive oil and camellia oil, which are regarded as "healthy edible oil"
    .
    In other words, using them to replace animal oil, palm oil, coconut oil, and cream that are high in saturated fat is actually beneficial to health
    .
    As for saying that avocados "contain a lot of cholesterol", it is completely nonsense-all vegetable oils do not contain cholesterol, and the current scientific consensus believes that the impact of cholesterol in food on health is not a concern
    .
     
    In addition to the amazing dietary fiber in avocado, the content of vitamin C, vitamin E and B vitamins is also considerable
    .
    In addition, it is also rich in "plant-stimulating metabolites", such as various polyphenol compounds-which is why it is considered to have various health effects
    .
     
    Of course, avocado is a high-fat, high-calorie food after all, and its flavor and taste are also very general, and it cannot be directly eaten in large quantities like other fruits
    .
    Usually, it is used in various salads or snacks as part of the ingredients, and even people who "like it" will not consume much
    .
    Because of its nutritional composition, it is just a good idea to say that it can "lower blood lipids" and "antioxidize"; similarly, because of its "high fat", it is said that it "causes thick blood and accumulation of fat in blood vessels," Formation of thrombus, inducing cerebral infarction" is also nonsense
    .

     
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