How to Eat Avocado Seeds for Nutrition

Known for its pulp that can be crushed up into guacamole or cut up for use in salads and other dishes, the avocado also contains nutrients in the large seed or pit. Containing fatty acids, alcohols and unsaturated compounds, the pit is also a good source of soluble fiber, which helps lower cholesterol and improve heart function. American Indians used avocado seeds to treat dysentery and diarrhea. Avocado seeds also pack a bitter taste that results from the tannins they carry. Despite the bitter taste, you can eat the avocado seed for its nutritional value, but you should be careful because in large quantities the avocado pit can be toxic.

Things You'll Need

• Avocado
• High-speed blender
• Spoon
• Three bananas
• Frozen fruit
• Water
• Drinking glass

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Instructions

• 1

  Peel an avocado and remove the pit from the fruit. Discard the avocado peel.

• 2

  Place the avocado pulp, seed and three bananas in the blender. Blend at high speed adding water as needed.

• 3

  Continue blending until avocado pit is pulverized, stopping to stir with a spoon to make sure. If the blender overheats, stop blending until it cools down, and try again.

• 4

  Add a large handful of frozen fruit and continue blending.

• 5

  Pour the smoothie into a drinking glass and swallow it down.