Avocado Pit Tea: Is It Really a “Powerful” Health Drink? 🥑🍵

The health claims are much stronger than the evidence. Avocado flesh is nutritious, but that doesn’t mean the pit/seed has proven medicinal benefits when made into tea. There isn’t good clinical evidence that avocado-pit tea lowers cholesterol, controls blood sugar, detoxifies the body, or treats inflammation.

What about the avocado pit?

Avocado seeds contain various plant compounds that have been studied mainly in laboratory and animal research. That is very different from demonstrating that drinking avocado-pit tea provides a health benefit in humans.

There is also limited safety information on regularly consuming avocado seeds or tea made from them. So I wouldn’t recommend making avocado-pit tea a daily health remedy.

🍵 What should you drink instead?

If you’re looking for a healthy herbal drink, choose something with better-established safety and evidence, such as unsweetened green tea or ordinary herbal teas that are appropriate for you.

And if you’re eating an avocado, the best-supported choice is simple: eat the flesh and discard the pit.

⚠️ One important distinction

Don’t confuse avocado pits with the pits of fruits such as apricots, peaches, plums and cherries. Some of those seeds contain amygdalin, which can release cyanide when digested. (poison.org)

Bottom line: 🥑 Avocado is a nutritious food; avocado-pit tea is not a proven medicine. Claims that it has “powerful” benefits should be treated skeptically until supported by good human studies.