When 12-year-old Nadia Lim told her parents she wanted to write a cook book and have a cooking show called ‘Food in the nude' they didn't encourage that title, but they did foster her dreams of becoming a chef.

'What I meant was the food would be in the nude – good tasting food stripped down to basics doesn't have to be packaged in fancy packages,” says Nadia, winner of the 2011 Master Chef Competition and NZ Avocado ambassador.

NZ Avocado ambassador Nadia Lim was a keynote speaker at the avocado conference in Tauranga.

”Fifteen years on I still think ‘food in the nude' best describes the kind of food I like to eat. I tell people to eat as little processed food as possible. Eat food from the ground, the sea and sky, not the factory.
'I am absolutely thrilled to be Avocado New Zealand ambassador because avocados are utterly delicious, a super food which is so good for you; that you should be eating an avocado a day.”
While people know to use avocado in guacamole and spread it on toast for breakfast, there are many other ways to incorporate the fruit in other dishes, including as a smoothie with other fruits and milk, or in sweet dishes such as ice cream.
'Avocadoes are the near-perfect food containing nearly all the important food groups including macro and micro nutrients, vitamins and folate. An avocado a day will keep the doctor away.”
Nadia says she follows her grandmother's advice to 'eat your colours” and having at least three different coloured foods on a plate is a key to a healthy diet.
#Nadia Lim was one of the keynote speakers at Nutritional Values, the fifth quadrennial New Zealand and Australian Avocado Growers' Conference, held in Tauranga in September.