How to tell if an avocado is ripe

There are few foods where the degree of maturity is as important as in the case of avocado. This exotic product has long become a part of our daily lives, but even so choosing avocado at its best is still confusing. Ensuring that the avocado is at its ripening point is essential to be able to enjoy a tasty food with multiple benefits for your diet.

 

Factors to check if an avocado is ripe

Next, we will review the main characteristics that an avocado must have to know that it is at its point.

 

Touch and pressure

This is the best way to know if an avocado is at the ideal time to consume. To check this, just place the avocado in your hand and press lightly without damaging the fruit. If you notice that it is too hard and that the pressure does not affect it, then the avocado will need a couple of more days to get at its optimum state.

On the other hand, if we press and notice that the peel gets off, it is a sign that the avocado is ripe, and it is time to eat it. It is a very versatile food and there are hundreds of recipes where you can enjoy avocados.

 

 

Avocado colour

The typical colour of a ripe avocado is dark brown. If the avocado has a more vivid green colour, it means that it still lacks time to ripen. The darker the more mature the food is, so if it has a blacker colour rather than brown then it is likely overripe.

There are different types of avocados, but you can follow this rule to differentiate if it is ripe with all of them.

 

Remove the stem to see if it is ripe

To finish this review of the avocado, the last trick to know if it is at its ripening point or not consists in removing the stem. If you can do it without any difficulty and its colour is the typical green of avocado, then it is at its perfect point of ripeness.

On the other hand, if when you pull the stem it is too hard and does not come out easily then the avocado needs to rest for a couple of days and if, on the contrary, when you open it you see a darker colour, it will mean that the avocado is overripe.

 

How to ripen avocado before

If you want your avocados to ripen earlier, you can leave them in the fridge and in about three days they will be perfect to eat. On the other hand, if you need the avocados right away for a recipe, we will tell you a very simple trick so that it is ready to eat in 10 minutes.

It involves wrapping the avocado in aluminium foil and placing it in the oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes. Then you just have to let it cool and you can enjoy this fruit as, even though it may seem a lie, the avocado is not a vegetable.

Now you are an expert in identifying which avocados are at the best time to be consumed, either in your nearest supermarket or by placing an online order at Naranjas Quique where you can enjoy fresh avocados in just 24 hours.