How Have Avocados Changed Over The Years

Avocados have been part of many people’s life for hundreds of years. People know different ways of using them and their different of eating them but some people don’t know where avocados come from or that they have changed over the years. People have had avocados for so long that they have been taken for granted but just imagine avocados going extinct and never being able to taste guacamole for the first time. Before we discuss the avocado’s end let us go back to its beginning.
In 1518, Martin Fernandez de Enciso, a Spanish conquistador, wrote in his journal about the first account of the avocado that the conquistadors found commonly growing in Santa Marta, Columbia. The Spanish explorers where also the ones that gave the avocado its name by
Not only has their variety and size changed, their uses in our every day lives. Some examples are, using avocados as a face mask to naturally moisturize your skin, getting rid of bags under you eyes, or using it to treat your dry damaged hair. Nonetheless this only scratches the surface of what you can do with avocados. For instance avocado has more health benefits other than moisturizing you skin and hair. The avocado is used to treat wounds with pus, the skin of the avocado can be used to relief pain cause by sunburns, and its seed can be pulverized to make an ointment that can treat skin irritation. The avocado has so many different uses and has bettered many different dishes with its flavor but what if the avocado had gone extinct before we could cultivate
For the reason of why they almost went extinct we have to go 12,000 years back to where the avocado seed was about the size of chicken egg. The reason being was because the avocado tree relied on animals to spread the avocado seeds far away from the parent tree to allow the seed to grow with the nutrients it needed rather than falling to the foot of the tree where they would have to compete for the nutrients and water in the soil. Unfortunately not just any animal could it the avocado due to the size of the seed. It was the very large animals that would eat the fruit, digest the flesh and expel the seed along with their waste. By the time the avocado see exited the digestive system of the animal, the creature would have traveled far enough from the parent tree to where it would not have to fight for nutrients with the parent tree. Then the day came that these creatures became extinct and the avocado almost went with them because they had no form of propagation. Luckily early humans to a liking to the fruit and started to farm it and with the years the avocado became the size that we know