There’s no other fruit quite like it. Meet the noble avocado and learn about all its nutritional superpowers; the delicious benefits of avocados just don’t stop. Learn the different types, how to select, keep them green, and store avocados. Avocado or Persea Americana is a pear-shaped fruit that has a rough, pebbly skin and tender, silky flesh. They come from a genus of evergreen trees in the Lauraceae family, where the fruit of the tree yields these delicious plants. Once described as an “alligator pear” the name seems fitting because of the shiny, deep green skin. Most all of the many