Can You Juice An Avocado?

Such an unusual question? But you would be surprised with how many people want to know if you can juice an avocado with your juicer. After all, avocado’s are super poplar. People have gone crazy for avocado’s in recent years. Everything from avocado toast to smoothies made with avocado and avocado ice cream have made their way into the public conscious.

However, there are some people who aren’t satisfied with just having avo toast or guac. While those are both delicious, there are some diehard avocado fans who want to know if you can use your juicer to make something delicious with an avocado.

And sorry to disappoint, but you really can’t juice an avocado. It’s just not something that is feasible. It’s similar to juicing berries or bananas. It just can’t be done. It’s not that berries and bananas can’t be made into something better with your juicer, it’s just that they cannot be juiced!

Avacado’s are soft, and, more importantly, they are very high in fat. Fat isn’t something that can easily be put through a juicer. It won’t really workout well. In fact, you will end up wasting your avocado if you end up using them with your juicer in the regular way.

 

Why Would You Want To Juice An Avocado?

Good question. Why would anyone want to juice an avocado? Well, there are a ton of reasons. First, the avocado’s are super healthy. They have beneficial nutrients, mainly the healthy fats. There is a big misconception online that people have that all fat is bad. There is also a misconception  (mainly due to the new Keto diet) that all fat is good. That’s obviously not true.

Good fats include things such as walnuts (another food that some people will try and put into a juicer, for real) and other nuts and also olive oil. However, these things are not things you can juice. However, that does not mean that you can’t use a juicer to turn them into something else (more on that later on).

But some people simply want to expand their avocado repertoire, to say it one way. They want to maybe eat avocados’ without having to have toast (maybe they are gluten free) or they might just be curious. Since, after all you can also eat avocado in salads, or on the side with eggs or beans or even pasta.

Finally, you should want to include avcovados in your diet and if you don’t like to eat them whole and you’re not keen on making guac, then it’s a great idea to take advantage of your juicer and use them that way!

There are some amazing things you can do. For instance:

• Use your Juicer to turn Avocado’s into a creamy avo butter!
• Vegan style ice cream (banana or avocado work well with this)
• Add Avo to Nut Butter! More spreadable and just as tasty.
• Use up ripe avocados that you have hanging around your kitchen (who hasn’t brought a bag of avocados and had them all turn at the same time!)

Can You Juice An Avocado or Is it a Waste Of Time?

I’m sorry to tell you that it would be a waste of time and you can not juice an avocado. If you put an avocado into a regular juicer, then what you would be left with if a mess. The avocado would gunk up the juicer and you’d not get any juice.

It’s simply not something that works well. So, my advice to everyone is to simply not try and juice an avocado.

 

What Can You Do With An Avocado and a Juicer?

So, if you can not juice an avocado, what can you use your juicer for? Well, the good news is that you can use your juicer with avocados. You just can not juice them.

My personal favorite recipe with avocados is to make a creamy vegan ice-cream or a rich nut butter that includes avocados.

In order to do this, you have to peel the avocado and remove the pit. The avocado nut is huge and even if you could somehow fit it into the juicer, you should not! The pit is too big and hard and will damage your juicer. It’s not the same as when you juice an apple and you juice the seeds.  The seeds in an avocado are simply too large and not something that you can juice.

So, my suggestion is to make a vegan avocado butter, or even make an avocado style vegan ice cream. The process to use an avocado in your juicer with these is the same as when you make any other type of butter.

First, take the proper attachment and put that onto your juicer. For the sake of this article we will assume that you are using an Omega juicer. These juicers come with two attachments. The first one is for juicing. It will have a strainer and will remove all of the juice and pulp and give you the juice you are looking for.

The second one is the attachment without a mesh screen. This is the attachment that you want. It’s the attachment that you will use whenever you are making nut butters, vegan ice creams (such as banana ice creams) and also if you are making an avocado butter.

You can use this attachment to extrude the pureed avocado into a butter like consistency and also add things like cashews or almonds or coconut to it. This will give you a rich and creamy texture like you would find with butter and also make it vegan. You get the healthy omega fatty acids without the animal products.

There are a series of videos online that should you how to use the juicer as a form of press. The liquid will be pressed and not expelled. It’s similar to the method that you see when you make your own peanut butter in health food stores and also in places like Whole Foods and mom and pop stores.

Can You Use an Avocado in a Blender?

Yes, and that’s actually what a great many places and people do. If you go into a health food store and see avocado on the menu, it’s normally in a smoothie. That’s a more popular method than juicing. The avocado in a smoothie is something that is super easy to do.

Basically, you’re doing something very similar as to using a juicer to extrude a avocado butter or cream. You’re blending up an avocado instead of pressing it.

If you are looking to use avocado in a blender, then you are going to want to use it to make a smoothie. Not an avocado butter or anything else. The blender is not designed to process and blend avocado into a butter. It will be a mess. And you’d waste a lot of the avocado in the blender and you would be stuck having to scrape it off the sides with a spoon. So, no, don’t try making avocado butter in a blender.

For a blender, stick with a smoothie (green or berry or mixed) that you can add avocado to. This way you can simply peel the avocado, cut it and remove the avocado pit and add it to the smoothie.

It will provide a rich and creamy texture to your smoothie (it makes a berry smoothie delicious!) and also adds healthy fats. And it’s much easier to blend up than nuts and is not as messy as using other fats such as coconut oil.