And…this analogy applies to so so many other things that are shoved down our throats every. single. day.
Always seek out who is putting up the money for the results they want you to have.

Here are my substitutions which taste better to me and my friends:
Coconut oil and a little ghee instead of avocado. Also, I add a half banana and a teaspoon of stevia. Honey instead of maple syrup. Rice flower or almond flower instead of arrow root flower Inot always easy to find the latter).

The brownies are very wet..looks like a quiche
Don’t know how to fix it up

Jake D; Love your commentary on discriminating between healthy and horrendously processed foods. You should think about writing your own books.

Hello Laurie. Let’s see if I can get your started in a better direction, and help you to begin to understand what is behind this confusion. Please bear with some of my long sentences. Much of the confusion (about health and nutrition) comes from the “baby talk” that is so prevalent these days, with regard to topics of healthy living. Here are some quick examples, to get you started: You hear someone make a comment about the effects of eating beef, upon your overall health. Well… try asking yourself some (or all) of these questions: Are we talking about feedlot (CAFO) beef? Are we talking about beef from an animal that roamed organic pastures for its entire life? Are we talking about beef from a hot dog? Are we talking about a piece of sirloin, from a “pastured” animal, that was cooked with care? Are we talking about meat, eaten with poor-quality bread and condiments, as occurs in a fast-food burger? Or are we talking about high-quality beef, prepared in a healthy manner, that is eaten with a large plate of veggies, along with a modest amount of healthy fats? Do you begin to see the many variables at play here? Can you begin to imagine how some (or all) of these factors… (and there are MORE of them)… could make a difference in whether that meat contributed toward a high level of health, or instead… it helped to ruin your health? The same goes for fats. There are fats that should never be eaten. Here is an example of a fat that should not be eaten. Someone grows a cotton crop, sprays it with many poisons, harvests the seeds, uses solvents to extract the oil from the seeds, leaves toxic solvents in the oil, allows this oil to oxidize; (go rancid), puts the oil into a plastic bottle, stores it in a warehouse, then dumps it into a deep fryer, (at 375 degrees), and then cooks french fries in it for 4 or 5 days, without changing that oil. When you eat those french fries, you can ABSOLUTELY expect that oil/fat to harm you. Period. This is bad. So to end the “baby talk”, stop comparing THAT oil, (which I just described), with butter from an animal raised on pasture. Also do not compare it with olive oil from organic olives, that are pressed and bottled with care and love and delivered to your table in short order, and eaten without exposing that olive oil to high temperatures. When you shift your thinking, and begin to see the finer points of these foods and how they are prepared, you’ll begin to see through the confusing mess that is out there in the world. You can also help yourself by NOT getting any of your health information from the 6:00 p.m. or 10:00 p.m. news. There is much more to be learned, but this is the starting point. One last example: Someone feeds casein, (extracted from milk from poorly-raised cows), to rats, living in a lab. (We already have several problems here, with this experiment.) Other lab rats are fed without that poor-quality protein source. Later on, when the rats health deteriorates, the researchers report that “consumption of protein” is bad for humans. Do you see what goes on here? They used rats; not humans. They used a crappy protein source, then they equate that with all protein. That protein might have been fed in the context of some “rat chow” or other crap “food”, but they tell you that eating protein with veggies is going to harm you. And on and on and on. And you should also ask who was paying for this study to be conducted, in the first place. This was a true-life example, and the bashing of “protein”, due to the study and the people who spread this info, was widespread. Learn to discern “baby talk” from legitimate information. Try reading a book, such as “The Immunity Code”. And turn off the television. You’ll be healthier for having done that. Best of luck to you!

I think this is important because I made the recipe and the avocado I used wasn’t the smallest one. I wondered if I should use less, but went with it. I ended up with brownies that were quite wet. I ended up returning them to oven two separate times in an attempt to reduce the moisture, but that didn’t help. I suspect the fat from the avocado was the reason. I really didn’t find the recipe very good.

You could easily swap maple syrup for honey. I do it all the time and never notice a difference.