HOW TO AVOID OXIDATION IN AVOCADO

NAME: GERMAN ALONSO RODRIGUEZ

KITCHEN TECHNICIAN
WHY AVOCADOS RUST AND HOW TO AVOID IT?

Avocados contain an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase.

When avocado flesh is exposed to air, the enzyme oxidizes.
This enzyme causes browning in many fruits and vegetables.

Avocados contain an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase.

When avocado flesh is exposed to air, the enzyme oxidizes.
This enzyme causes browning in many fruits and vegetables.
 CONTENT OF THE PROJECT FINAL REPORT
ON AVOCADO OXIDATION

PAG 1. HOW TO AVOID OXIDATION IN AVOCADO

PAG 2. WHY AVOCADOS RUST AND HOW TO AVOID IT?
PAG 3. CONTENTS
PAG 4. INTRODUCTION
PAG 5. OXIDATION IN AVOCADO
PAG 6. CONCLUSIONS
PAG 7. RECOMMENDATIONS
PAG 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 INTRODUCTION

The main objective of this report is to deepen knowledge on

how to avoid oxidation in avocado. In such a way that it can
be understood and used as a valuable tool in the various
applications as determined by sciences.

This report was made with the objective of disclosing the

detailed facts of how to avoid oxidation in avocado and the
corresponding use of the practices that therefore require it to
avoid problems when preserving our fruit.

Finally thanks to the instructor Alejandra Osorio Mendoza for

allowing us to develop and expand this work, also for the
constant support of her knowledge that always incuases us.
 OXIDATION IN AVOCADO

The rapid oxidation of avocados is a consequence of

exposure to oxygen in the air, as well as the presence of
phenolic compounds in the avocado itself.

HOW TO PRESERVE HALF AN AVOCADO?

If your recipe only calls for half an avocado, keep the
remaining half with the bone. This helps its conservation since
it leaves less surface exposed to oxidation. Wrap in plastic
wrap (ecological, if possible).

WHAT TO DO SO THAT THE AVOCADO

DOES NOT OXIDIZE?

Five ways to prevent avocado from rusting:

1. Leave the pit:

2. Save together with an onion:
3. Drizzle with olive oil:
4. Cover with lemon juice:
5. Place in cold water:
 CONCLUSIONS

In my opinion, the most effective way to prevent avocado

oxidation according to my experiments in the kitchen since I
frequently work this fruit in my dishes is:
perform the combination of several tricks mentioned above
starting by leaving the seed inside the remaining fruit, then
proceed to cut an onion, make a base in a container and
deposit the avocado and firmly cover that it does not have
contact with the air through any hole and take to the
refrigerator. It is the most effective way to avoid oxidation in
this very palatable fruit in Colombian gastronomy.
 RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
There are many rumors about how to avoid oxidation in
avocado but many of them are myths that become simply an
expression since they do not generate an evident result in the
desired process.

2.
1. Leave the pit:
2. Save together with an onion:
3. Drizzle with olive oil:
4. Cover with lemon juice:
5. Place in cold water:

All these previous methods are useful to avoid the oxidation of

food, but if we carry out the process of the onion bed and
deposit it in a perfectly covered container, putting our avocado
there and taking it to the fridge for cooling is the best method.
It consists in avoiding the most possible the contact of the air
with the fruit.
 REFERENCES – BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0sIm7SEw8

https://mejorconsalud.com/7-consejos-simples-evitar-los-aguacates-se-oxiden/

https://gastronomiaycia.republica.com/2012/09/02/trucos-para-que-el-aguacate-no-se-
oxide/#:~:text=Lo%20m%C3%A1s%20habitual%20es%20el,de%20lim%C3%B3n%20y%20adem%C3
%A1s%2C%20en

https://gastronomiaycia.republica.com/2016/06/09/el-nuevo-truco-popular-para-que-el-
aguacate-no-se-oxide/