Do avocados make you gain weight more than nuts do?

Avocados can also help you cut calories when you use them as a replacement for less-healthy fats. Spreading avocado on your sandwich instead of mayonnaise, for example, spares you more than 5 grams of fat and about 45 calories. Rather than thinking of avocado as a fruit, treat it as a fat source. read more

Natural fats do not induce weight gain the way “unnatural” fats do. Avocados are rich in necessary natural fats. It’s impossible to over-eat Avocados because of their “satiating” tendency. Very few people can eat more than two helpings of avocado because of its richness. read more

Neither would necessarily make you gain weight. To gain weight you have to be at a caloric surplus (eat more calories than you expend). Whether one contains more calories than the other, however, depends on how you look at it. Both nuts and avocados are mainly healthy fat. read more