Grapefruit Salad with Avocado is Delicious and Beautiful

This grapefruit salad with avocado is filled with delicious and nutritious ingredients. Grapefruit is a very good fruit for the winter with all the vitamin C in it and it has fat flushing benefits too. Enjoy your grapefruit salad as a starter for your main meal or for your full light meal.

Grapefruit is a healthy superfood good which helps with weight loss! It does more than help you lose weight, grapefruit is full of many health benefits too. Remember when a person gorged on grapefruit in the 1980’s and seriously lost lots of weight? It was highly restrictive but it turns out all those restrictions were not necessary. Learn about the Health Benefits of Grapefruit: Weight Loss and Much More.

Grapefruit salad is best made with red grapefruit as it is full of lycopene, which is more easily absorbed with some oil, thus the avocados & olive oil in this salad.

Avocados are bursting with lots of health benefits and are so strongly associated with fertility and aphrodisiacs that the Aztecs would lock up virgin daughters during avocado harvest time to keep them safe. Read the details and check out the infographic below on this wonderful Superfood.

Some people avoid avocados due to their high-fat content. Most of us know by now that avocados have the kind of fat that actually helps you lose weight! Learn all the Health Benefits Of Avocados With Infographic.

Olive oil is a very healthy oil to add to any salad. Olive oil was referred to as “Liquid Gold” by the famous Greek poet Homer.  If you are what you eat, what would happen if you consumed “Liquid Gold” daily?  Check out the 12 Health Benefits of Olive Oil With Infographic.

Have you heard of the olive oil fraud?  Find out Which Olive Oil to Buy.

The dash of mint and Himalayan salt is also good for us.

Grapefruit Salad

Time to make your ‘Grapefruit Salad’ for Lunch or Dinner.

Avocado Grapefruit Salad

This grapefruit salad with avocado is filled with delicious and nutritious ingredients. Grapefruit is a very good fruit for the winter with all the vitamin C in it and it has fat flushing benefits too. Enjoy your grapefruit salad as a starter for your main meal or for your full light meal.
Course Salad
Cuisine gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian
Keyword avocado, grapefruit, salad
Author Diana Herrington

Ingredients

  • 1 red grapefruit
  • 1 white grapefruit
  • 1 large avocado
  • 2 fresh mint sprigs, stems removed
  • 1 Tbsp virgin olive oil
  • Pinch Himalayan salt

Instructions

  • Remove the outer skin from the grapefruit.
  • Prepare the grapefruit by peeling and sectioning.
  • Remove the avocado from the peel and cut it into sections as shown in the photo.
  • Arrange the avocado pieces on a plate.
  • Cover with grapefruit.
  • Now drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and mint.
  • Time to enjoy this delicious salad.

Notes

Have you heard of the olive oil fraud?  Find out Which Olive Oil to Buy.
Learn about the health benefits of the ingredients: grapefruit, avocado, mint, olive oil, Himalayan salt

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 Delightfully Delicious Wild Rice Salad– This wild rice salad is delicious, nourishing and filling. It has tasty colorful vegetables in it to give the wild rice a good contrast and is a crunchy salad for lunch or dinner.  A very good thing about this salad is it is a whole meal in a bowl which means there are not lots of dishes to wash after eating this delicious meal. Also, I love wild rice!

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