Avocado is not only one of the most valuable but also one of the most amazing fruits in the world. It seems that nature could not decide what creates - fruit or vegetable.
However, since the first “biographer of the Conquistadors“ published a lot of information about unprecedented plants, animals, and peoples, the coat (as avocados are still called in Peru, Chile, and several other South American countries) did not pay much attention.
Much more resonant in this sense was the “General History of New Spain,“ which appeared in 1576 and was written by Bernardino de Sahagun, in fact, the only “European newcomer“ who studied the Aztec language of Nahuatl. Due to this, his chronicles were enriched with information not only about the gastronomic but also about the medical aspects of the use of the ahuacaquahuitl fruit, which was highly valued by the aborigines of Mexico.
This is a difficult word to pronounce, the colonizers later simplified to aguacate, from which, in turn, the