The avocado is a very nutritious fruit being the pulp the main part used for fresh consumption, in the dessert form, salads, sauces and cosmetics, besides being used for oil extraction. The residues, peel and seed are still little explored scientifically as this nutritious and functional potential. In this work, freeze dryied samples of the pulp, peel and seed of the 'Hass' avocado were submitted to analyses of centesimal composition, minerals, total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity. The pulp presented high content of lipids in relation to avocado peel and seed. The mineral elements were superior in the avocados peel. The peel and the seed possess larger total phenolic content and antioxidant activity in relation to the pulp.
Persea americana Mill.; minerals; pell; seed; functional property
