These easy tips will teach you how to choose the perfect avocado and store it for 12 days.

Adherents of a healthy lifestyle eat avocados all year round – it is an excellent source of valuable fats and fiber. It’s just to catch this wonderful fruit at the ideal stage of ripeness – that’s another problem! But there are ways to solve it.

An unripe avocado is firm to the touch, while a ripe avocado will be softer when squeezed. If unripe when purchased, an avocado can take up to a week to ripen, while an uncut ripe avocado can take up to three days to be perfect. Don’t buy an avocado that’s too soft – it’s more likely to be overripe and tasteless.

If you have bought an avocado that is not ready to eat right away, do not rush to put it in the refrigerator: it will remain stone and will never ripen.

It’s best to put an unripe avocado in a sealed paper bag and leave it at room temperature, out of direct sunlight. In a maximum of a week it will reach the optimal state, check it every day so as not to miss it. If you need it to be ready faster, put a banana or an apple in the bag. The gas they give off accelerates ripening.

Avocados bought ripe or ripened in a bag will keep for 2 to 3 days in the refrigerator. But do not put next to fruits – they will become soft and tasteless.

It is important to understand that the fact that the avocado turns black on the cut does not mean that it has deteriorated at all, it is just an oxidation reaction in contact with oxygen. But, we agree, that may not sound very appetizing. What to do to protect the pulp? There is a remedy, and a very simple one: moisten the pulp on the cut with lemon juice and wrap it in cling film. Also, the bone left in the half prevents the cut fruit from turning black. Avocado cut and treated with sour juice will stand quietly in the refrigerator for another 2-3 days.

Thus, we consider: 7 days of maturation, 3 days in the refrigerator and 2 days in context = 12 days of high quality conservation of the avocados;)